Sao Paulo is the most expensive state capital in Brazil, with an average rent of 1,700 reais (RM1,293) for an apartment of 30sq m, according to the Institute of Economic Research Foundation.

São Paulo’s favelas are running out of food. These women are stepping in. COVID-19 is worsening hardship in Brazil's working-class settlements, so this group is giving out 6,000 free meals a day.

Nearly 4,000 of the deaths are in Sao Paulo state. An aerial view of Brasilandia amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on May 10, 2020 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Rodrigo Paiva/Getty Images ...

SAO PAULO — Un grupo de niños recientemente hizo fila para recibir sus tajadas de una enorme torta azul en un centro comunitario de Sao Paulo. Pero no se trataba de ningún cumpleaños: era el ...

The Dz7 Dance takes place in Paraisópolis, the second largest favela in Sao Paulo, with a population of close to 100,000 people. Some 12,000 of its inhabitants are illiterate or semi-literate.

São Paulo — A thunderstorm breaks the afternoon heat for a few moments in Portelinha, a favela in São Paulo. The rain pushes raw sewage and debris along narrow streets and downhill toward the river.

The enormous number of fires in the favelas of São Paulo—202 in 2016—led the São Paulo City Council to open a parliamentary commission of inquiry to determine the causes of the fires in 2012 ...

Leaving church one Sunday last September, Angélica Cristina Lopes, 27, saw the Piolho favela in flames. Lopes had lived in the favela, located in the south of São Paulo, ever since she was a child.