By Mark Mix
Home day care providers would be forced into unions
Since 2011, police have seized control of dozens of favelas from drug gangs, and things have changed so dramatically that some of the slums are now seen as hot real estate investments — so hot, in fact, that two Europeans recently locked horns in a legal battle over a battered favela house.
"We're seeing upper-class people, millionaires, famous musicians practically queuing up," he said.
Mr. Ramos, the agent, said he recently closed a slew of $25,000 deals on small cinder-block homes that wouldn't have fetched $5,000 a few years ago.
