Activate, Articulate, Advocate: for the Right to Occupy, Hold Ground, and Upgrade!
This Participatory Action Research (PAR) project aims to increase knowledge
about the trajectories of young land occupations, informal and precarious
settlements, and irregular subdivisions in the Southern periphery of São Paulo
City, while fostering coalition building and co-producing strategies to advance
tenure security and upgrading. The PAR has focused on facilitating knowledge
exchange among more experienced informal settlements, with a long tradition of
community organizing, and those that are in the initial stages of their leadership
development.