Tag: Buenos Aires shanty towns

• Wednesday, October 1st 2014 - 07:10 UTC

  In Buenos Aires City, 275.000 people live in shantytowns, says human rights report

  

  The population in Buenos Aires’ City shantytowns increased to 275,000 from 163,000 people during the last four years while City Hall’s budget for social housing fell to 2.1% this year, the City’s Human Rights Observatory (ODH) reported.

• Thursday, January 9th 2014 - 06:35 UTC

  People living in Buenos Aires shanty towns increased 52% in ten years

  

  The number of people living in shanty towns or “misery villages” in Argentina and particularly in the capital Buenos Aires keeps increasing despite a decade of sustained growth at almost Chinese rates. According to data from the latest census of 2010, the number of people living in 'misery villages' in Buenos Aires was 163.587 compared to the 107.422 in 2001, with a 52% increase.