and where we are is rodrigo bueno.s one of the neighbourhoods that has the most disadvantages nowadays. what happened here is that when that neighbourhood was built, people who worked on those buildings, they started to settle here and they started to live here like 30 years ago. so they started building some houses here and the neighbourhood started to grow. - juan maquieyra heads up the buenos aires housing institute, where one of his biggest projects is well underway. around 10% of the city's 2.8 million inhabitants lives in informal settlements known as villas. that's a lot of people living in sub-par conditions. on top of that, these villas have next to no social link with the rest of the city. that's a big problem, one the housing institute is trying to solve. backed by the government and other international institutions, juan's ambitious goal is to upgrade the living conditions and connect the villas to other, more prosperous areas in the city. is your job bringing the city to this neighbourhood, or bringing the