When residents of high-rise apartments in Recife, Brazil, look out over the city,

they probably can’t see the shacks blending in with the trash-strewn mud at the water’s edge. But for the families living in these fragile shelters, the image of the sturdy home they lack fills the sky — close enough to see clearly, but too far to grasp.

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