The objective of this work is to analyze the housing policies in Villa 20 of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, for the neoliberal period 1984- 2018. Specifically, an analysis of the state intervention’ role in a longitudinal manner and its relationship with the informal popular habitat and its neighborhood organizations is done, emphasizing in briefs and urban regulations. This analysis includes a key normative background such as the current Law No 5705/2016 of "Redevelopment, Zoning and socio-urban integration of Villa 20". The relationship between housing policy and its effects on the socio-urban grid is problematized by using the question: What type of housing policies generated integration or, on the contrary, reinforced residential segregation? A methodological multi-method strategy was adopted, incorporating data from primary and secondary sources, including census data, semi-structured interviews with key informants as well as non-participant observation. the law and its execution. As a main finding, it is suggested that although the national democratic opening made progress in legal terms, they did not applied to a concrete housing improvement of the `Villas ́, which is showing a lack of relationship between the law and its enforcement.
Keywords:
Housing Policies, Popular Habitat, Residential Segregation, Villa 20
Diaz, M. (2019). Housing policies and neoliberal urbanism: State intervention in Villa 20, Argentina (1984-2018). Revista De Urbanismo, (40). https://doi.org/10.5354/0717-5051.2019.51814
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