Human and organizational component of the community is the dominant factor in the development of informal urban processes constituted either by social movements at low and medium scale as by governmental and private entities. To explain relationships into the community, it is necessary to identify the different rolls assumed by participants of the social group in the conformation of settlements of informal origin; various dynamics including the leader roll who litigates and “commercializes” a place, and the roll of communicators or informers of movements in generation taking place in different sectors of the city in and out. Also, the roll of the person in charge of organizing and assembling the community, not to mention those who work on the creation of relationships between social agents from the formal sector and unions constituted to be mediators to make it possible for different dynamics to allow access to soil and the attainment of public services nets as first action of habitability for informal settlements.
Not to forget that social actors are formed within the first steps of the process, which means that the cohesion is generated with the force of union of common interests in order to get the attainment and appropriation of the place and the access to the minimum infrastructure. While the settlement is fortified, initial associations begin to dissipate since particular needs prime over collective ones in later steps of consolidation, although solidarity and support are shown when there is need to get resources and goods.
Among state and private organizations, (specially in the last ones) non-profit organizations stand out, like ONGs that center their work in the endorsement to communities present at settlements of informal origin, which means that they open the door to dialog towards “legality” and “formality”. At the same time, private actors with commercial interests are present and act in the processes of consolidation of infrastructure (particularly, enterprises in charge of supplying domiciliary public services), service suppliers in different areas, and materials and constructive components dealers.
The state, understood as organization, becomes an actor that, at the beginning of the process has an indirect participation in the promulgation of politics and norms not considering informality; then, its presence is tangible through the different institutions associated to it in order to formalize the proceedings and facilitate requirements to legalization. Nevertheless, when dynamics are assured with the appropriation of soil and consolidation of constructions, it assumes a relevant roll with politics and norms, not for absence but for presence, and turns over as determinant in the consolidation of informal urban processes.
