Sentence examples for irregular settlements from inspiring English sources

Between Brasilia and Sobradinho lies a 16 million square meters estate known as "Fazenda Paranoazinho", where 30,000 middle class homesteaders and commercial strips serving that population—have made their homes on top of irregular settlements lacking legal tenure.

Characterized as "irregular" settlements where many do not have deeds to their properties, there have been long-standing attempts to reclaim the slums where more than 11 million Brazilians live.

Nearly 20% of the territory of the Municipality of São Paulo is occupied by irregular settlements distributed over more than 3,000 allotments with nearly 3 million inhabitants.

A third of the population of Belo Horizonte live in apartments (in high rise buildings), 9 % of the city's inhabitants live in favelas (irregular settlements), with the remainder mainly living in semi-detached or detached houses (IBGE 2010).

Improving access to formal housing and upgrading mass public transit are the two main priorities to prevent the formation of new slum areas and attenuate the growth of existing irregular settlements.

"Irregular settlements" had no public services or infrastructure and in this case, they settled on the banks of the canal, thus contaminating it.

"When shaken, these sediments transform into a liquid, causing irregular settlement of the ground, which is extremely damaging to buildings and buried structures, like water lines".

This growth is largely, but not exclusively, driven by the ongoing search for housing among lower-income households in the form of irregular settlement.

This paper examines the approach for managing land use regularization processes related to irregular settlement in conservation land adopted by the municipality of Xochimilco in its 2005 urban development plan, with reference to the experience of a specific case study community.

The government can argue that Mexico's climate change strategy – to "relocate irregular human settlements in zones prone to disasters" – justifies the evictions.

Yet, the sustainability of the new approach remains uncertain in the face of continued raids of irregular migrants' settlements and migrants' rights violations, especially in the North of Morocco and in the border areas (FIDH/GADEM, 2015).