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List of acronyms and special termsAllegadoAnticresisAsentamientoBairroBarrioBogeyBusteeChawlTerm used for people living in the backyards of Chile’scities. The word is best translated as those who are near,close or related. The ‘allegados’ became a significant featureof the Chilean housing scene under the military regime of the1970s and 1980s when many young adults set up homes intheir relatives’ backyards.A tenure situation in which the tenant has to pay a largeamount of money (often between 25 per cent and 40 per centof the value of the house) in advance, but lives rent-free foran agreed period of time (generally two or three years).“After this period the house owner returns the initial paymentand the occupants have to vacate the dwelling unless anew period of anticrético or other contract is agreed upon bythe parties” (Beijaard, 1992: 43). Anticresis contracts areobligatory for one year with a second optional year. “Thesystem is popular in Bolivia due to the high interest rates onborrowing from credit institutions and the difficulties inprocuring capital.” Used to be for higher and middle incomegroups but now also becoming more popular among poorerhouseholds (Richmond, 1997: 120).A term sometimes used in Chile to describe a self-helpsettlement.A term used in Brazil to describe a neighbourhood.Implicitly it means a formally developed area as opposed to afavela. Hence the settlement upgrading programme in Rio isknown as Favela-Bairro.Term used in Venezuela to describe a self-help settlement. Inother countries it often describes an ordinary neighbourhood.An arrangement in Bangalore, India, similar to anticresis andchonsei (see Kumar, 2001).In West Bengal, “bustees are settlements with a distinctivethree-tier arrangement: bustee dwellers … rent space in hutsbuilt by thika tenants on land leased to them by the landowners”(Banerjee, 2002: 49).A row tenement in Mumbai usually informally developed butsometimes produced by the authorities (Pimple and John,2002: 76).Contentsxi