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Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Chile urged to avoid gentrification due to PanAm games infra development

 

Chile is spending some US$550mn on infrastructure for the 2023 Pan American games, including US$51mn on a housing complex in Santiago’s Ñuñoa district, which will partially go to low-income families after the games finish on November 26. But these plans risk gentrification and could lead to failing the families in need, Nora Libertun, an urban planning and design lecturer at Harvard University, told a webinar in response to a question by BNamericas.

https://www.bnamericas.com/en/news/chile-urged-to-avoid-gentrification-due-to-panam-games-infra-development

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