Informal settlements and poverty in Bello. The other side of “progress”

Abstract

This article seeks to analyze how the real estate growth experienced by the municipality of Bello in

recent years has shaped a dynamic of urban development that extends sociospatial segregation and deepens social inequality and multidimensional poverty. From the analysis of official figures, it is evident

how Bello, at the time that it became the city with the highest construction dynamics of the Aburra

Valley, also stood out as one of the lowest levels of quality of life and higher rates of multidimensional

poverty presents, being the 21 informal human settlements that the city has, the territories most forgotten by the State and, consequently, more vulnerable to remain in the poverty circles.

In this sense, the present text, appealing to the commitment of the academy to the transformations

that society requires, criticizes the approach with which the Mayor of Bello has attended these territories and proposes the rights approach as an intervention alternative.