Urban Land and Informal Settlements in Gran Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina

Authors

  • María Cristina Magnazo Universidad Nacional del Nordeste

Abstract

The paper describes an increasing illegal settlement process carried out by families without houses in Gran Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina. Once the settlement takes place responsibility is laid in the state so as to expropriate the land to benefit the settlers. Reality proves that the state does not carry out this action because it lacks the resources to do so, besides the local housing budgets are not only meagre but some of them have been all together cancelled which leaves families in need unattended. The authors finish the article by proposing some questions about the most critical and urgent situations which are of local interest. Such questions are meant to be publicly discussed by all sectors

Author Biography

María Cristina Magnazo, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste

Arquitecta argentina, master en Procesos de Integración Regional. Coordinadora para las Provincias Chaco-Corrientes del PROSOFA(Programa de Desarrollo Social en Áreas Fronterizas del Noroeste y Noreste Argentinos con Necesidades Básicas insatisfechas), Ministerio de Planificación Federal, Inversión Pública y Servicios, Secretaría de Obras Públicas, Subsecretaria de Desarrollo Urbano y Vivienda, préstamo FONPLATA ARG 14/2004. Profesora adjunta, Cátedra Desarrollo Urbano II, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, UNNE (Universidad Nacional del Nordeste), Investigadora Senior del CIET (Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios Territoriales), org. Diputada Provincial de Chaco (1999-2003). secretaria de Obras y Servicios Públicos, Municipalidad de Resistencia (1995-1999). Investigador coordinadora proyectos - Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios Territoriales (CIET), desde 1986.