Deficit Cero and Techo presented the results of the study “Types of camps in Chile“, with which they seek characterize irregular settlementsunderstand its heterogeneity and complexity to guide housing policies and find solutions.
The analysis defined five types: Small Active (27.4%), Large Migrants (14.5%), Macrocamps (16.2%), Strategic (29.7%) and Peripheral (12.1%). This sampling was carried out with information from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning (Minvu) and the Techo-Chile foundation.
Its distribution throughout the country occurs through the Macrocamps that predominate in the great northwith the presence of a migrant population and population attraction in the city of Antofagasta, while Small Inactive and Strategic are mainly found in the central zone, Valparaíso, Metropolitana and O’Higgins.
Likewise, they show greater diversity, since there are more presence of foreigners and has diminished collective organization to seek a definitive housing solutionin addition to variety in the materiality of the buildings and population density.
Given the above, the coordinator of Deficit Cero studies, Clemente Larrainexplained the challenges that each one presents: “The Little Inactiveswhich are the first category, we have the difficulty that they are not organized and we do not know how they would respond to a session with the Minvu; the Great Migrants, where these camps are used, what they are like and What are your expectations“.
“The Macrocamps are so large that surely the solutions are collective; the Strategicare the camps of organized chileansthere perhaps we have more thoughtful solutions because they are more historical, but there is also a challenge regarding them, or the Peripherals that are far from the cities and well, what do we do so that these camps associated, surely with a productive activity, decide to work with the State and find a solution“he explained.
“A FIRST APPROACH”
This would be a first stage of studies, since the organizations stated that it is necessary – after classifying the camps – to characterize the families that make them up.
Pia Palaciosdirector of the Ceiling Studies Center, stated that “it is extremely important advance public policy proposals for each of these camps, but also start to delve into different types of sociodemographic compositionin advance of reviewing land regulations and seeing what conditions each of the camps is in to know how to intervene.
“Now, this is the first approximation of determine camp typologiesbut now we do need to make good public policy proposals and it is not only among us, but it is necessary to diversify the actors“said Palacios.
It is estimated that around 114 thousand families currently live in campswhere the main factor influencing the creation of these continues to be low housing affordability and low income.
