Social displacements in the urban renewal programs of Lima's Historic Center (1996-2016)

Lopez S.; Paraizo R. · Eure (2022) · DOI: 10.7764/eure.48.145.12

Resumen

The precarious conditions of slums and urban poverty in Lima’s Historic Cen-ter has worsened, mainly due to the state free market reforms implemented in the decade of 1990, including the urban renewal program that relies on private investment. Under these programs, the State granted the market the prerogative of solving the access to housing. This article introduces three case-studies that prove that urban renewal programs, implemented by the national and local governments, have not managed to reverse slumming and have generated various types of social displacement: direct and indirect, chained, before, during and after its execution. We conclude that the three analyzed programs were very specific, since they only focused on properties due to their exclusivity, therefore, being excluding, considering that the beneficiaries had to meet a set of banking requirements.