Housing rehab for consolidated informal settlements: A new policy agenda for 2016 UN-Habitat III

- Data are presented from the Latin American Housing Network (LAHN) for nine countries.
- Low income self-built consolidated informal settlements that began 25-35 years ago.
- We propose new policies that target housing and community rehabilitation (rehab).
- The paper targets the agenda for UN-Habitat III, 2016 in Quito.
- Spatially these areas form the first suburbs and “innerburbs” of Latin American metro areas.