Franco, et al. make an assessment of the collective action repertoires mobilized by actors from urban places of informal housing throughout Latin America, the research methodology was a virtual ethnography and spatial analysis of the initiatives, a survey using snowball answered by more than 200 organizations, since the internship beginning of the pandemic until May 30. The research identified seven spheres of informality that may have been the object of the actions of the movements in each territory: housing, health, income, food security, infrastructure, security and political participation. The authors highlight the centrality of having, before the pandemic, some level of local associativism to allow a quick response from civil society. Furthermore, the formation of networks and concentration of organizations that promote collective action in this context has to do with the country's capacity for social mobilization as a whole. Download the document here .
