Changing Urban Environments: Squatter Settlements

Question 1

What are SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS?

Answer 1

Built illegally in and around the city.

By people who can’t afford proper housing.

Question 2

Name 2 counties which squatter settlements are a problem in?

Answer 2

Brazil - San Paulo

India - Mumbai

Question 3

If most people have moved from the COUNTRYSIDE to the CITY what are they called?

Answer 3

Rural-Urban migrants.

Question 4

Describe the SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS?

Answer 4

Badly built.

Overcrowded.

Question 5

What basic SERVICES don’t squatter settlements have?

Answer 5

Electricity.

Sewage.

Question 6

Brasil they are called…

Answer 6

Favelas

Question 7

Other places call them…

Answer 7

Shanty towns.

Slums.

Question 8

What do squatter settlements LACK?

Answer 8

Policing.
Medical services.
Fire fighting.

Question 9

Life expectancy is…

Answer 9

Lower than the main city.

Question 10

Describe the jobs within the settlements?

Answer 10

Aren’t taxed or monitored by the government.

Question 11

What part of the ECONOMY are they referred as?

Answer 11

Informal sector.

Question 12

3 ways to improve the settlements?

Answer 12

Self-help schemes.
Site and service schemes.
Local authority schemes.

Question 13

What do the self-help schemes do?

Answer 13

Involve government and local people working together to improve lives.

Question 14

What does the government supply?

Answer 14

Building materials for local people to build homes.

Question 15

What do the site and service schemes do?

Answer 15

people pay a small amount of rent and borrow money for building materials.

Question 16

What do the local authority schemes do?

Answer 16

Funded by local people.

Improving the temporary accommodation.

Question 17

An example of a local authority scheme?

Answer 17

City of Rio, spent $120M on the Favela- Bairro project.

Question 18

Name the characteristics of squatter settlements.

Answer 18

Little space between houses.
No electricity or phone lines.
Houses built from waste material like plastic sheets.
No paved roads or sewers.

Question 19

How is life dangerous in squatter settlements?

Answer 19

Don’t have access to running water, proper sewers or electricity.

Question 20

Many inhabitants work within settlements doing what?

Answer 20

Working factories or shops.

Question 21

What do people working in the informal sector do?

Answer 21

Work long hard hours.

Little pay.

Question 22

Squatter settlements govern themselves in what way?

Answer 22

More successfully that you might expect.

Strong community spirit.