"Illigal"

I am just contemplating right now that maybe, building norms could be more flexible to accommodate social issues and inequality. After all, things can be done right in more than one way and possibly, outside of the established norms. I understand that regulations are meant to protect all sectors of society equally, but they will inevitably affect the lower classes more as they are the ones who have the need, and sometimes no option, but to do things in an illegal fashion. Slums in Mexico are technically illegal (but so are drugs). They are classified as irregulated settlements and if found the government is allowed by law to kick out the inhabitants and level it to the ground. What the government is not allowed to do, is to provide services to those places since they were built illegally. However, I think these laws are completely contra-productive. Waste money and risk lives kicking people out and bulldozing their homes so that they can go settle illegally somewhere else, rather than regulating the settlement an allowing it to become a proper colony. There are examples of settlements that went from slums to established neighborhoods in a relatively short amount of time. Netzahualcoyotl, with over one million people in Mexico City’s metropolitan area, is considered one of the largest slums in the world. It was built in the 50s by rural immigrants next to a dumpsite and today is the densest county in all of Mexico and although it is still far from perfect, it is also far from its slummy beginnings. If the government would have kicked them out, all these people would now be living in worst conditions in more secluded and disperse areas where the cost of developing them would be much higher.