Socio-economic, political and environmental impact of human settlements on the periphery of the city

Abstract

The research provides the results of the socio-economic, political and environmental impact of human settlements on the periphery of the city of Cúcuta. The research had a mixed approach, because the descriptive method and the field study were used, allowing to obtain primary information of the subjects through structured surveys applied in the respective locality and consultation with secondary sources. The population corresponds to the families that are located in the periphery of the city of Cúcuta, non-probabilistic sampling was used under the random sampling technique, allowing to select 200 families that meet the characteristics and conditions of the study. It was evidenced a community with vulnerable characteristics generalized by shortcomings of housing structuring and high settlement rate, resulting in abandonment or poor attention by the State, the total absence of public services as basic sanitation, due to the precarious conditions in which the vast majority of the individuals who live there inhabit. All of the family nuclei are made up of single mothers, heads of households with one or three children, who work as independent workers, their level of education is basic and allows them to work in various jobs. The health service is poor, there is no comprehensive social security. Finally, it was found that family members do not have adequate housing conditions, since the vast majority of these have only one room where they perform various activities.