Problemática habitacional en La Matanza: un análisis de las urbanizaciones informales desde las sensibilidades sociales

The aim of this article is to describe and analyse the informal urbanisations of the La Matanza district, located in Buenos Aires, Argentina, distinguishing the characteristics of each zone into which it is segmented in order to study its socio-economic conditions and the inequalities it presents. It also seeks to address some social sensitivities as cognitive-affective practices that are structured there, configuring ways of being, feeling, thinking and acting. This approach will be based on a methodological strategy that combines qualitative data - in-depth interviews with civil society organisations related to the housing problem in La Matanza - and quantitative secondary data from a survey carried out by the NationalRegistry of Popular Neighbourhoods (Registro Nacional de Barrios Populares). It seeks to problematise the implications of studying informal urbanisations from a theoretical and background analysis of the subject. From different denominations used in Latin American literature such asasentamientos, villas, favelas, campamentos and in English as ‘slums’, we coincide in the descriptionof territories that have in common the link with different types of informality, precariousness, risks andvulnerabilities in a context linked to poverty.