Housing Shaped by Labour – The Architecture of Scarcity in Informal Settlements

23. Clothes line
Residents hang up clothes, often washed in the kitchen or bathroom
of the house, outside their houses to dry.
24. Cesspits
Many houses built in Maceió (both in formal and informal
settlements) are not connected to the public sewage system. In
the favelas, residents improvise cesspits for the houses of the
community. The activity is supervised by experienced masons
who live in the favela.
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