An unsatisfactory term for a squatter settlement, since it implies that squatter settlements are unplanned. They often are planned, although rarely legally. For instance, between 2003 and 2005, landless families organized 552 settlements in the Brazilian Amazon (INCRA 2007), and these settlements represent one-third of all new settlements formed throughout Brazil during 2003–2005 (INCRA 2007), pointing to the significance of what has been identified as direct action land reform (DALR) (Caldas et al. (2010) J. Latin Amer. Geog. 9, 1).