The Socio-Urban Integration Secretariat (SISU), through ReNaBaP, launched the first official Observatory of Popular Neighborhoods that permanently collects and generates information on popular neighborhoods throughout the national territory that later serves to feed the design, planning and implementation of socio-urban integration policies.
Through territorial surveys and digital review and georeferencing tools, it identifies and diagnoses the conditions of the neighborhoods included in the ReNaBaP with the aim of having precise, official and quality data.
According to the latest data, many of them updated to March of this year, in La Plata there are 162 popular neighborhoods. In addition, some 33,402 families live in a total of 30,356 homes.
On the other hand, the report gives an account of what basic services these neighbors have access to. It is indicated that 85% of them are clandestinely connected to the electricity network and almost 65% -also irregularly- to the running water network. While only 4% is connected to sewers.
Meanwhile, the survey in our city showed that almost 97% of these families use jugs for cooking, and that 57% are heated by electricity.
On this map you can access all the data, neighborhood by neighborhood:
As indicated, through the interactive dashboard of the Observatory of Popular Neighborhoods, it is possible to consult all the sociodemographic information of the families that live in the neighborhoods. In addition, from the application of dynamic filters, the information presented can be disaggregated by province, department, locality and neighborhood (by ID ReNaBaP), as well as, based on other cross-sectional dimensions such as gender and the age range of the and the inhabitants.
In Argentina, until 2017 there was no official, unified, and quality information on the sociodemographic conditions of popular neighborhoods. “This lack has made impossible, for decades, the design, planning and execution of strategic and long-range public policies, aimed at addressing the problem of housing informality and the deficit in access to land,” they specified.
The development of the ReNaBaP allows public organizations and the general population to have an official database. This database is freely accessible through the popular neighborhoods interactive monitor, which will allow directing and deepening with evidence, specific programs to integrate popular neighborhoods, as well as nurture public policies in general, develop academic research, among other initiatives.
