In Brazil, housing activists are accusing the Rio de Janeiro city government of using the 2016 Olympics as a pretext to forcibly displace tens of thousands of residents and further segregate the city. Government data shows more than 22,000 families have been resettled since 2009 to make way for infrastructure projects related to the Games. The evictions have led to violent crackdowns by local police, particularly in the favelas. Resident Ocimar da Silva Miranda, who said he was hit by a rubber bullet shot during a protest earlier this summer, said: “We have the right to live here, but they want to take it by force. The mayor is using our lives, our homes, as a way to pay back the loans from the big construction companies that financed his campaign.”