sentences:  A survey carried out by SPARC between July and October of 1985 found that pavement dwellers were not transient populations, but people who had lived for over two decades in the city.This was documented and published in "We The Invisible", which detailed the background of these people from the poorest districts of India - victims of underdevelopment, communal violence, floods, famines and other crises.There were no evictions, and by March 1987 Mahila Milan was established to help poor illiterate women in each settlement understand the politics of why they cannot get land in the city for their house, and to develop a strategy to present to the city.