These haunting photos show the desolate Rio neighborhood being bulldozed for the Olympics

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The summer Olympics in Rio are less than a year away, and the city still has plenty of preparing to do. One big obstacle: the ramshackle settlements that sit in the exact spots the city wants to use for Olympics infrastructure.

Rio started evicting people from these settlements years ago, but the process isn't yet complete.

Vila Autodromo, a neighborhood that once housed 700 families, is emblematic of the evictions. Sitting right behind the Olympics media center and other half-built structures for the games, Vila Autodromo now has just 87 families left.

Many of them are defiant, refusing to leave for any price.

Below, the story of what's left in this ghost settlement.