THE NEIGHBOURHOOD MOVEMENT AND REACCOMMODATION
Demand for improvements
Reaccommodations and an uncertain environment
Neighbourhood organisations: future neighbourhood associations
The organisations of the shantytowns worked to further the demand for
improvements in the neighbourhood and to achieve the greatest influence
possible on the shantyism eradication projects.
In the mid 1960s, the start of the major reaccommodations produced an
atmosphere of uncertainty in the shantytowns. The inhabitants organised
themselves in order to influence the process, spreading their demands through
the public opinion or generating alternative housing cooperative projects to the
municipal ones.
El reallotjament de famílies barraquistes es feia de forma precipitada i sense
tenir un projecte social definit. Molts dels nous polígons estaven en construcció,
sense els serveis socials i urbanístics necessaris. S’havien aconseguit pisos, però
les mancances dels nous barris feien que els nous veïns continuessin lluitant per
poder viure-hi dignament. Algunes de les organitzacions veïnals dels nuclis de
barraques es convertiren en l’embrió de les futures associacions de veïns dels
nous polígons d’habitatge.
The reaccommodation of shanty-dwelling families was carried out precipitately,
without a defined social project. Many of the new housing estates were under
construction, lacking the necessary social and urban services. Flats had been
obtained but because of the shortcomings of the new neighbourhoods, the new
inhabitants had to continue to struggle to be able to live there in respectable
conditions. Some of the neighbourhood organisations of the shantytowns became
the embryo of the future neighbourhood associations of the new housing estates.
In the unplanned housing nuclei for immediate reaccommodation, the City
Council installed some basic infrastructures aimed to relieve the pressure of
public opinion and to improve the inhabitants’ quality of life while awaiting the
arrival of a permanent solution.
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