The Chilean Housing Policy. Can this Instrument Be Used to Address the Development of Integrated Housing?

This article presents a critical analysis of the housing situation in Chile comparing the known success of the present system with the limitations affecting the residential habitat quality, especially in poorer areas. As a result of this analysis a proposition is made for all the actors to take part...

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Main Author: Sepúlveda Ocampo, Rubén
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Revista INVI 2000
Online Access:https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62112
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Summary:This article presents a critical analysis of the housing situation in Chile comparing the known success of the present system with the limitations affecting the residential habitat quality, especially in poorer areas. As a result of this analysis a proposition is made for all the actors to take part in the system, to transform the state into a guarantee, for sustainable and democratic development, to acknowledge the social and urban diversity, to promote a decentralization, to develop effective social control methods by the citizens, to contribute to the development and formation of the human capital, to advance in the laws that integrate the territorial and urban order, to acknowledge the urban soil as a scarce economic good, to value the technical assistance, to develop a program to improve the existing housing stock and to structure a mechanism to evaluate the housing production, It was exposed at the VI Encuentro of the Red Universitaria Latinoamericana de Cátedras de Vivienda, Córdoba, Argentina, October, 2000.