Another Madrid: the not stop growing shanty towns. Regional rehousing and social integration policies, 1997-2010

Abstract

The ethnic concentration process in shaty towns takes place in Madrid from the year 1986 until now. This situation unleashes the need of collaboration between three administrations (central, autonomous and municipal). Our study will be concentrate on the analysis of historical evolution of this process and of the above mentioned collaboration. The first great action against the shanty towns in the capital was a program known as Neighborhoods in Remodeling that took place in 1989 and involved the necessary collaboration between administrations. Once rehoused all these families the phenomenon suffered a process of ethnic concentration. The Town Hall from January 1984 develop the acquaintance Plan of Actions for the Eradication of the gypsies shanty areas, without very much success in his results. From 1986, Town Hall and Community of Madrid are obliged to create a Consortium for the Rehousing of the Isolated Population who finishes his actions in 1999. In this year, that institution was replaced for IRIS (Institute of Rehousing and Social Integration) which activities will be an object of another point of analysis in this investigation. We will show as the IRIS established certain strategic fundamental changes in the process of rehousings the afected families that it will differ from the previous stages. Finally, we will see as so much the Town Hall as the Community of Madrid have been supporting, throughout the time, different positions on the measures to adopt opposite to the chabolismo and it has determined in major or minor success of the actions until the year 2010.