Development agencies use a range of strategies to support land regularization and acquisition.
In some cases, development agencies (primarily NGOs) work with communities to resist
eviction and secure tenure of the land which they occupy (see, for example, Audefroy 1994);
on other occasions they help them to negotiate with the state to acquire land, or to save in
order to purchase land on the commercial market (Arrossi et al 1994).
b. Housing