Abstract

ZAPATA, Ma. Cecilia. The role of public institutions in experiences of self-management housing in Argentina. Econ. soc. territ [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.50, pp.229-264. ISSN 2448-6183.

This paper examines the way of implementing the Self-management Housing Program (Programa de Autogestión de la Vivienda, PAV) in the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina) by various managements of government that were in charge of its implementation since 2000 -the year of its creation- to the present day and its impact on the experiences of self-management of popular ongoing habitat. Even with its limitations (external)3 and constraints (internal)4, the social and collective experiences associated with the design and implementation of PAV contributed to the construction of a significant field of dispute for the democratization of city production and appropriation of urban centrality claiming for the sectors with low incomes the right to the city and habitat.

Keywords : Self-management of housing; State; social production of habitat; social participation.