Slum integration is one point of consistency in Argentina’s fractured politics
in Mexico. Governments have long tried to improve them. Chile pioneered a market-oriented approach in the 1970s, in which tax breaks were given to construction companies that built social housing. Between 1980 and 2000 about 2m new homes were built for the poor, representing 43% of the total housing stock. Though the effort was considered successful, some families had shoddy houses in areas far from their jobs.
One of the biggest projects took place in Rio de Janeiro between 1995 and 2008 at a cost of $600m. This sought to integrate 158suggests that neighbourhoods that took part in the project ended up having worse rubbish collection and sewers. Local gangs often sought to reassert control by destroying the new street lights and road surfaces. Lack of access to steeper, hillier areas meant that much of the new infrastructure could not be maintained.
The biggest change has come for the 1,200 families that once lived under a highway. The city government has built blocks of flats to house them. But in two recent surveys of the new apartments a majority of residents complained of leaks and poor insulation. Higher rents are a sore point. Mr Larreta is hoping the publicity from Villa 31 can help him win the presidency next year. Adverts across Buenos Aires push his slogan: “The transformation doesn’t stop.” Mr Larreta, a Harvard-trained technocrat, may lack the pizzazz of hisThis article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline"Slum dunk"
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