Slums and Regimes: National Policies towards the Urban Poor in Latin America

• In Event: Challenges of Governance in Latin America

Brief Overview

This paper explores variation in the policies that national authorities have deployed to deal with slums in major capital cities in Latin America over the last 75 years. These include cooptation, regularization, neglect, relocation, and expulsion.

Author

• Noah Schouela, University of Chicago