An Economic Times article today, titled “Slums and economic stimulus”, says

“If slum dwellers could be given property rights that are heritable but inalienable to the land on which they now have their make-shift homes, if these title deeds provide for being used as collateral, then immediately all of these people become eligible for drawing on [...]

Free markets are being blamed for the global economic crises, but there have been virtually no free markets in most of the world for decades. While not totally unfree, nearly all markets have been manipulated, managed, poked and prodded by bureaucrats and politicians. Whether the interventions were necesssary is a different question. What cannot be questioned is the fact that interventions were prevalent.