"About one billion people worldwide live in slums, of whom 134 million are in Latin America and the Caribbean"
By Gustavo González
SANTIAGO, Jun 23 (IPS) - In Uruguay, 16,000 families have a proper home as a result of housing construction cooperatives, while in Bolivia people living in the ravines of La Paz have a system to deal with housing risks thanks to a non-governmental network.. And further south, in Chile, self-build social housing projects are mushrooming.
Improvement in urban living conditions, mainly ensuring basic sanitation, drinking water, security of tenure, adequate size and safety of location, is one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by the United Nations in 2000. The world target is to achieve significant improvement in the living conditions of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020.
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