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- Title
Renovation of a Squatter Settlement in Columbia.
- Authors
Solaun, Mauricio; Flinn, William L.; Kronus, Sidney
- Abstract
The article focuses on a research aimed at renovating invasion barriots in Latin America. The article selected Las Colinas, Texas for analysis, as earlier comparative data were available. A random sample of 60 household heads were drawn in August-September 1971 and 58 formal interview schedules were completed. Those units that could not participate in the renovation project were excluded, as they were located in danger zones and areas reserved for public usage. The findings indicate that invasion barrio contains a heterogeneous population. The heterogeneity in family organization and income limited participation in the program. Only individuals that were relatively integrated into the larger society were successful participants. The participants in the project received substantial increases in some public services and improvements in some of housing conditions. To pay for these improvements families tended to change from a nuclear to an extended family structure. Furthermore, these previously property less household heads that had been living in rooming houses tended to become landlords renting rooms to outsiders.
- Subjects
COLOMBIA; BOGOTA (Colombia); TEXAS; UNITED States; HOUSING rehabilitation; SQUATTER settlements; HOUSEHOLD ecology; HOUSEHOLDS; FAMILIES; HOUSING; LAS Colinas (Irving, Tex.)
- Publication
Land Economics, 1974, Vol 50, Issue 2, p152
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3145365