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This article provides a conceptual understanding of the processes of financialization based on the concept of the biopolitics of housing financialization. Drawing on the Foucauldian categories of disciplining and regulation, we elaborate an empirical analysis of the mechanisms that, in Mexico, propagated the aspiration of various sectors of the population with limited resources to have access to a home of their own through mortgage loans. The construction of the notion of biopolitics of the financialization of housing is based on an empirical research conducted at two different times (2017 and 2020) and consisting of semi-structured interviews with owners of affordable housing in the periphery of the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico. It shows that, far from benefiting borrowers, their insertion in credit relations undermines income and negatively impacts their quality of life. The present discussion is articulated through five devices of the financial biocapitalism of housing --the discourse of personal wealth, socio-territorial stratification, the fallacy of social credit, the reality of peripheral life, and the reality of indebted lives--, which help to explain the epistemic violence inherent to a financialized model of economic and territorial development that produces economic and political gains for a few people, to the detriment of those who are supposed to benefit from housing policies. The analysis reveals that the devices implemented reflect the subtlety of the exercise of power in the financialized provision of housing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present a statement from an anthropological lens in the context of sanitary exceptionality under an institutional and citizenship crisis. It refers to a young population of Haitian residents with difficulties in exercising their right to a city inside the principles of sustainability, democracy, equity, and social justice who are integrated in a subaltern way. We revised some of the actions performed by the Chilean authorities in 2020 during the pandemic analyzing how they are affected from the perspective of their civil rights, focusing on informality, work, access to a living place, and the evaluation of the roots of the migratory project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents the dynamics of a medium-sized city, Pelotas, located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It aims to problematize the analysis of migratory flows, which impact the morphology of the city, resulting from state interventions with private initiative. To highlight this reality, data from the research linked to the City Conflict Observatory of the Graduate Program in Social Policy and Human Rights of the Catholic University of Pelotas will be presented. The contributions of the authors Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey and Raquel Rolnik determined the critical perspective of this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article makes a theoretical approach to the functioning of the land and housing markets in modern cities, taking as a starting point the housing problem in the City of Buenos Aires. After analyzing the main determinations of these markets-land rent, real estate speculation, supply-demand mismatch, etc. -; it becomes clear that the increasing difficulty that vast groups of the urban population find in accessing adequate housing, that is, the housing deficit and the expansion of the informal housing market, is the result of structural conditions in which the market-oriented urban space production is framed in capitalist cities. In order to compensate for the dysfunctionalities of the market and respond to the housing needs of the insolvent sector, public policy intervention in terms of urban and housing planning is necessary, but it must be admitted that the structural causes will continue to subsist given the nature of the commercial institution as an agent of urban space production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objectives: To describe the general conditions of Priority Interest Housing (VIP by its acronym in Spanish) built in Medellin from 2008-2013, and the sociodemographic characteristics and self-reported morbidity of the families that inhabit them. Materials and methods: Descriptive, ambispective, and transversal study. Representative proportional random sampling consisting of 380 houses from 13 residential areas located in 4 communes and in 2 of the smaller villages near the city of Medellin, in 2014. Analysis of social, economic, demographic, environmental, and health variables as well as of the characteristics of the apartments were carried out. Primary information source: survey and data sheet for the characterization of housing units. Secondary information source: database of the Social Institute for Housing and Habitat of Medellin. Results: VIP projects were constructed in 5-11 stories height buildings, in 1 and 2 social strata peripheral communes of the city. The housing units' built area ranged from 44.75 to 47.40 m2, and the apartments were 100% subsidized by public investment resources; 63.9% of the apartments have been improved by their inhabitants and consist of an average of 2 rooms per housing unit. Of a total of 1564 residents, 32.5% belong to a special category of the population (displaced and African descent population, and other ethnic groups). Student population was the most predominant (33%);12.6% (198 residents) registered self-reported morbidity events related to the apartment, of which 53% corresponded to acute respiratory infection, 6.6% to acute diarrheal disease, and 0.38% (6 residents) accidents within the housing units. 62.6% of the residents mentioned discomforts since they moved to the units due to noise or loud music from neighbors, 55% mentioned suffering from nervousness or stress, 32.4% reported sleeping problems, 31% mentioned profound sadness, and 34.7% wished to return to their previous housing. Conclusions: The need for further studies that help to establish the relation between housing and health was detected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Under a materialist viewpoint, the ruka or Mapuche dwelling in the Andean template forests of southern Chile is revisited, enlarging the interpretative framework that until now has privileged the constructive dimensions of the dwelling. The ruka is an inflection in a residential practice that synthetize social relations, materialities and the environment. It is a constitutive part of a living landscape which carácter is socioenvironmental and that, from a comparative view, offers better protection of trees and humans in the context of native forest conservation. The results invite to integrate the study of residential practice not only as part of the nature surrounding the house, but also its dynamic, changing and fluid character that include humans, trees and other living organisms. The residential practice offers a dwelling model that provides better clues for the protection of the forest and of the people that live in it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the main interest of this article, the results of a study that reviews social mobility in Ciudad Juárez during the period 2002-2010 are reported, following the acquisition of new housing. In the context of housing policies, perhaps as a result of it, to meet the shortfall has been identified in Mexico, increased in Ciudad Juárez, the production of social housing -principally- during this period. We assume that changing housing, social mobility of a family should be improved. Under this assumption, we scrutinize some aspects of social mobility as components of the change in the living conditions of those who purchase a new home in the real estate market in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México (2002-2010). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to present the history of the urban growth of San Juan de Girón (Santander) between 1964 and 1985, based on the territorial development that took place in the area surrounding the city. In studying the periphery, it takes account of documentation illustrating development, location and housing projects, thus obtaining a morphological and typological approach to the problem. In addition to this, it undertakes a historical and physical reading of the new territory, which made it possible to break down the old urban schemes that governed both the city and the regional context. This made it possible to establish three exact moments in the configuration of the periphery and to identify the main urban agents that promoted diverse public and private projects as a solution to the demand for housing that arose in that era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present work aims at analyzing the housing and urban legislation policies developed at different state levels, and their materialization in the urban space of Tandil (province of Buenos Aires, Argentina). In the last decades, a worsening of conflicts related to housing deficit in some neighborhoods was observed in the city of Tandil, fact which contrasts sharply with the power of real estate activities such as the construction of residences for high-income sectors and tourism-related uses located in other zones of the urban area. This work seeks to explore, on the one hand, which action has been taken by the State to guarantee access to housing for the underprivileged social sectors. For this purpose, data supplied by the Ministry of Social Development from the Municipality of Tandil will be used. On the other hand, by using documentary techniques, this work seeks to know the urban planning policies implemented by the provincial and municipal governments, looking into the restrictions imposed on real estate speculation in the most dynamic sectors of the urban area, that have a strong impact on the sales and rental prices of housing in the rest of the town. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyzes information related to residential mobility of low incomes and female headed households in the metropolitan area of Bogotá by using a Survey Mobility and some interviews make in 2009 for the Project "Metropolis de América Latina en la globalización: reconfiguraciones territoriales, movilidad espacial, acción pública", Metal. We show a context using some census indicators and then we show of findings by survey zones. In the first place features about age, marital status, occupation, education; in second place about of zones of residence, specially, the localization in metropolitan area and neighborhood morphology. Finally, analyzes aspects how type and tenure of housing, localization of nets of relations and household life cycle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this work we analyze the reforms carried out by the Mexican state in the nineties of the 20th century, in the items concerning the policies of housing and urban land, based on an exhaustive review of the main actions, programs and changes in the legal and institutional frame that applies for each of these fields. The nineties represent a "breaking point" in the way the State considers the satisfaction of the right to the housing and attends the offer of urbanized land for a tidy and sustainable urban development. In this period of time, the approach of direct intervention in developing and financing housing and creation of land reserves has changed into another one, ruled by the logic of the market. The balance to the first decade of the 21st century is ambiguous, as neither the housing policy has solved the housing shortage for low-income population, nor the land policy has eliminated the illegal urban growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]