For a Proper Home: Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960-2010

by Edward Murphy

From 1967 to 1973, a period that culminated in the socialist project of Salvador Allende, nearly 400,000 low-income Chileans illegally seized parcels of land on the outskirts of Santiago. Remarkably, today almost all of these individuals live in homes with property titles. As Edward Murphy shows, this transformation came at a steep price, through an often-violent political and social struggle that continues to this day. In analyzing the causes and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822963116
• ISBN13: 9780822963110
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 8.8"