‘Squatting’ as a strategy for land settlement and sustainable development

摘要: Informal occupation or “squatting” is an escalating phenomenon in the postcolonial world. As Robert Home and Hilary Lim observed 2004, “The millions of people world who lack access to land where they can find secure shelter present a great global challenge law, governance civil society. About half world’s population (three billion people) now live urban areas, nearly are estimated be living informal, illegal settlements, mostly peri-urban areas less developed countries.”1 At turn millennium, Hernando de Soto argued that such poverty only reduced by replacing customary tenure with legal property rights,2 (as summarize) rights “are hidden infrastructure help achieve sustainable development goals.”3