Inhabiting the Temporary: Patience and Uncertainty among Urban Squatters in Buenos Aires

Abstract

In November 2005, I accompanied a group of poor urban squatter families in Buenos Aires to stage a protest at the premises of the local Secretary of Housing (IVC) 1 , the office in charge of housing programs for the poor in the city. 2 Around 50 men and women, some of them carrying along young children, gathered in the lobby of the government building displaying makeshift placards that read, “We demand a response. We are tired of waiting.” For over a year, the families had been awaiting approval for a low-interest mortgage loan to finance the renovation of a rundown mill into shared housing. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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