![]() ![]() In industrialized countries, there are often residential squats and also political squatting movements, which can be anarchist, autonomist or socialist in nature, for example in the self-managed social centres of Italy or squats in the United States. In Brazil, there are favelas in the major cities and land-based movements. Informal settlements in Latin America are known by names such as villa miseria (Argentina), pueblos jóvenes (Peru) and asentamientos irregulares (Guatemala, Uruguay). There are pavement dwellers in India and in Hong Kong there are rooftop slums. In African cities such as Lagos, a few of the population live in slums. In developing countries and least developed countries, shanty towns often begin as squatted settlements. It has a long history, broken down by country below. Squatting occurs worldwide and tends to occur when people who are poor and homeless find empty buildings or land to occupy for housing. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there were one billion slum residents and squatters globally. ![]() ![]() Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. ![]()
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