*Future Housing*


## **Table 1.**

*Typologies of informal territories in northern Chile.*

On the link between informal territories and public policies, since the 1990s there has been a gradual redirection toward policies that seek to overcome what is called the problem of informal settlements [26]. The institution in charge of developing these policies has been the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism, together with all its associated services, which have developed various programs to settle or eradicate informal settlements by placing their inhabitants in social housing complexes [26, 27]. Here people must apply for housing subsidies, being an economic aid to finance access to social homes, considered the definitive housing solution for people and their families. Unfortunately, the relationship between inhabitants of informal settlements and housing policies has had some historical and current frictions. When a group
