SUMMARY: This paper describes how slums have come to house such a significant proportion of the urban population in virtually all low-and middle-income nations. It then discusses a combination of large-scale land development for housing and more efficient upgrading programmes (with attention to keeping down unit costs and integrating microfinance to support house improvement), and how these approaches can greatly reduce the proportion of people living in slums, thus contributing to the Millennium Development Goal of significantly improving the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020. The paper illustrates its points with examples of effective innovations in housing vouchers, land market reforms, and land development programmes from different nations in LatinAmerica.
América Latina y El Caribe poseen un rico patrimonio expresado en sus edificaciones históricas, paisajes naturales, así como en sus valiosas expresiones culturales. Sin embargo, el patrimonio de la región también posee marcadas muestras de deterioro y subutilización, afectando la calidad de vida de sus comunidades locales, perdiéndose una oportunidad de aprovechamiento del potencial social y económico que ofrece. El presente documento entrega las bases conceptuales del programa de revitalización patrimonial, Patrimonio Vivo, enfocado en abordar las problemáticas urbanas patrimoniales de las ciudades del ALC desde un enfoque integral, inclusivo y sostenible. El documento incorpora las bases conceptuales y objetivos del programa, desarrollados a partir de cinco pilares que lo componen: inclusión, productividad, ecoeficiencia, resiliencia y colaboración.
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