Villa Miseria

As a Villa Miseria ( German: Misery settlement ) informal settlements / shanty towns in Argentina are called, often located in the outskirts of big cities. Its official name is euphemistically Villa de emergencia ( German: Emergency settlement ). The highest proportion of marginal settlement dwellers among major cities in Argentina Rosario has about 13 %, but also in Buenos Aires and Córdoba live about 5-10 % of the population in these settlements. Both the size of the settlements ago and from the crime level, they are not comparable to the favelas of Brazil. The largest Villa Miseria ( Villa 31 in Buenos Aires ) in 2009 had about 26,000 inhabitants; in addition, there are several more with more than 10,000 inhabitants, respectively (La Cava in the district of San Isidro and Villa La Tela in Córdoba).

Resettlement programs

From the government efforts for decades to improve the situation in the Villas Miserias. Thus situated in flood plains settlements are often resettled in social housing estates. Conveniently located quarters of the so-called Programa de Mejoramiento de Barrios (German program for the improvement of neighborhoods; Promeba ) are under legalized land tenure under Brazilian model and improved the infrastructure (electricity, drinking water, sanitary facilities ).

In Rosario, the largest resettlement project Rosario Hábitat is carried out since 2001 in several steps. There in several steps over 40,000 social housing units to be built in order to eliminate the problem of urban decay, the first phase, which has been running about half, comprises 7,000 apartments. Also in Cordoba about 10,000 apartments were built ( Programa Barrios Nuevos ) and thus the number of slum reduced by more than a third.

In the military dictatorships of the 1960s and 1970s, many slums were, especially around Buenos Aires, forcibly resettled, often offer alternatives without the inhabitants. One of the reasons was the Football World Cup 1978: We wanted to present the guests Argentina without poverty. In these resettlement schemes, many people lost their lives, either through systematic assassination or by the circumstances surrounding such resettlement.