Problem:
Rural-to-urban migration in Latin American cities often results in large squatter settlements surrounding the city. (Answer at minimum two of the following four questions with two large paragraph responses in the initial post, noting specifically to which questions you are responding.)
1) Where did the residents of these favelas come from, and why did they move? Who owns the land they move onto? When did this phenomenon begin, and for what reasons? At what rate are these squatter settlements still growing? (Hint: Push and Pull factors) Need Assignment Help?
2) Many work in the informal economy and live in informal housing. What does this actually mean, in practical terms? Are the urban poor better off or worse compared to their rural counterparts?
3) When one city is much larger than any other, it tends to attract more migrants. How successful are governmental attempts to create second big cities, and do these secondary cities reduce the migration pressure on the largest city?
4) What other programs have governments implemented to address the problems of the peripheral poor, or what programs or policies might be helpful? Mention as many ideas as you can, keeping in mind the limited capital resources.