[fiatpandas]

How long until we see favelas in the US? Low income areas completely devoid of economic opportunity, more or less ceded by local municipalities, with lawless informal economies and virtually no basic city services? Or do we already have them by another name?

[realo]

Not quite there yet... but ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint,_Michigan

[maxerickson]

Flint has a bunch of abandoned housing.

It's sort of the opposite of a favela, people left housing behind because of the lack of economic opportunity (whereas a favela is people dealing with poor housing in order to seek economic opportunity).

[dpierce9]

Visit West Baltimore. It isn't a favela in the sense of either density or construction but in terms of missing economic opportunity, informal economy, very weak city services.

[jlebrech]

Ghettos, the projects?

[fiatpandas]

But they don't really function like favelas.