T HERE HAS BEEN much research on squatter settlements in Latin America but few studies have dealt with government programs aimed at renovating invasion barrios. Historically most studies have discussed the marginal or adaptive nature of these settlements.' Regardless of the merit of this controversy, Colombian governmental agencies are implementing experimental programs to integrate the residents of these barrios into the urban society. In doing so they are seeking to tap the desire of these populations to become full participants in the urban milieu. Colombian renovation programs combine public resources with the labor and capital and the organizational resources of local inhabitants in self-help programs. Given the resistance of the settlers to be moved
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Solaún et al. (1974) studied this question.