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The Recent Appearance of Favelas in São Paulo City: an Old Problem in a New Setting
Author(s) -
LLOYDSHERLOCK PETER
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-9856.1997.tb00055.x
Subject(s) - population , intervention (counseling) , state (computer science) , geography , economy , economics , demography , sociology , psychology , mathematics , algorithm , psychiatry
— While favelas have been an important feature of many Brazilian cities over the past 50 years, they were relatively insignificant in São Paulo until the mid‐ 1970s. Since then, São Paulo's favelas have experienced a dramatic expansion and some estimates now put their total population in the region of two million. This article examines potential explanations for this sudden change, including migration, changes in the housing market, relative prices and state intervention.