Urbanización informal en tiempos de corona

Abstract

The article addresses the issue of how the coronavirus can give us clues on how
to change our current views on informal urbanisation and radically transform the way in which we see social housing provision in Latin America. Despite the many ways in which informal urbanisation takes shape in Latin America, it is possible to generally assert that it does not provide adequate conditions for vulnerable citizens to face the threats posed by systemic shocks. By this token, housing is a crucial area of investment for governments aiming to increase the resilience of their cities and communities. As such, social or public housing deserves a new approach that considers it a public infrastructure that contributes to a general public good: public health. As a public infrastructure, social housing must be financed and managed in a completely different way than the current social housing systems in the region.