Chile sees surge in informal settlements due to pandemic, housing crisis 2 minutes read
By Sebastian Silva
Viña del Mar, Chile, May 4 (EFE).- “There are more than 900 families here and they all have a story. Or you think we wanna be here?” Veronica Villegas, a leader of one of Chile’s largest informal settlements, told Efe.
Like the Felipe Camiroaga Camp where she lives outside the glamorous tourist city of Viña del Mar, many other squatter communities in other parts of the country have recently experienced a sharp rise in new residents.
At present, a total of 81,643 families live in these communities nationwide, up from 47,050 families in 2019, according to the March 2021 National Land Registry.
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