Primary Care of Habitat. University program for housing improvement in Popular Neighborhoods of Gran La Plata

Abstract

In recent years, as a result of neoliberal social and economic processes, the COVID 19 pandemic and the lack of public policies offering fair and dignified access to land and housing, habitat self-management processes have increased.  In this context, the different actors that inhabit the popular neighborhoods reformulated their positions and forms of organization, building diverse solutions and knowledge around the improvement of their habitat. In this scenario, the "Primary Attention to Habitat" University Program is built, which addresses those socio-habitational problems related to the physical conditions of housing, socio-economic, cultural and gender conditions of households, access to basic services, the condition of common spaces, mobility and health, educational and socio-community infrastructures. The objective is to understand the problems in order to co-construct a series of strategies for the improvement of housing, based on the needs and possibilities of each family, from a constructive, economic and socio-cultural point of view. This article deepens on the contexts, the articulation of previous programs and projects, the approach and the methodological strategies adopted, as well as the reflections that emerged from the co-production and articulation of actors and knowledge during the work process in different popular neighborhoods of the periphery of La Plata.