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  1. Jan 24, 2024 · According to the institute’s preliminary data from the 2022 census that the AP reviewed early last year, the number of people living in neighborhoods at the time called “subnormal agglomerates” jumped 40% since the 2010 census to 16 million people.

    • Rapid urbanization following the financial boom during the 1950s in Venezuela led to a major housing shortage. As the country’s economy skyrocketed, many people abandoned a rural way of life to move to city centers.
    • In 2011, in an effort to solve the housing shortage which left 3.7 million Venezuelans without proper shelter, Former president Hugo Chavez passed a bill that would allow people to build upon any unoccupied land.
    • Venezuela was previously home to the tallest slum in the world. Amid the bustling financial center of Caracas, the famed Tower of David stood 45 stories high and housed 750 families.
    • Venezuela currently has one of the world’s highest inflation rates in the world. At the end of 2018, Venezuela’s annual inflation rate was 180,000 percent.
  2. The Brazilian government’s bold efforts to clean up the city’s notoriously dangerous favelas is giving hope to people who live there

  3. Jan 8, 2021 · In many ways, these transnational migrations do not differ greatly from the rapidly growing Latinx concentrations or barrios in urban America who have fought long and hard to belong and celebrate their Latinx cultures in cities.

  4. As part of the broader history of racialized urban space, barrios, like Black neighborhoods and so-called ghettos, have long been segregated, constructed as poor and disadvantaged, and marginalized. 3 Close Previous research shows how barrios have fared in the broader context of racialized urban (re)development processes. 4 Close The vibrant social and economic lives of barrios have been “destroyed, partially dismantled, and/or excluded entirely from the benefits of redevelopment programs ...

  5. After numerous complaints from residents, a spokesperson for the National Police communicated that measures would be taken if any policeman committed any further abusive actions during these operations. Data: 18% of the urban population of the Dominican Republic live in barrios malos, according to the Population Reference Bureau. Equador

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  7. Sep 15, 2023 · To quantify the program's impact, between July 2012 and September 2013, Barrio Mío reached approximately 3 million people.