The paper describes the context in which housing policies have developed in Latinamerica and analyses 6 factors: the increase in urbanisation rate, the outcome and settling of the informal sector, the proportion of poverty and inequity generated in the cities, the increase in the housing deficit , the needs for investment in neighbourhood improvement and the adoption of the Chilean financing model.
Author Biography
Julián Salas Serrano, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Investigador del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas de España y Director del Curso de Especialización de la U. Politécnica de Madrid: “Cooperación para el Desarrollo de Asentamientos Humanos en el Tercer Mundo”; es autor del libro “Contra el Hambre de Vivienda” (Escala, Bogotá 1996)
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