Squatter settlement improvements

Squatter settlement improvements

1. New city union favela (Brazil)

   • 600 squatter settlements
   • more than 1 million people
   • started in 1995
   • 40% of $300 million funding
   • Spent $120 million

2. Kibera (Africa)

3. Manila (Philippines)

   • Coke bottle lights
     • Recycling
     • Environmental
     • Social
   • ASH schemes
     • These involve the government and local people working together
   • Site and service schemes
     • People pay a small amount of rent for a site, and they cam borrow money to build/improve a house
   • Local authority schemes
     • These are funded by the local government and are about improving the temporary accommadation.( rio de janeiro) spent $120 million on improving the favelas
   • Built illegally
     • Rural-urban migrants
       • Not a lot of water
       • Poor sewage systems
     • Badly built
       • Over crowded
         • No electricity

4. Dharavi (Mumbai)