Thirty years of social housing in Mexico City: new necessities and requirements

A pesar de que por más de treinta años ha existido una acción habitacional apoyada por el estado, en México y especialmente en la Ciudad de México persiste un grave problema de vivienda. Para superarlo se requiere no sólo de mayores recursos y una política habitacional que recupere su contenido social sino, también, de programas que tomen en cuenta limitaciones que se detectan en el proceso de uso (habitar) de la vivienda y que tienen que ver con: las características demográficas de los habitantes, la tipología y características físicas de la vivienda, las formas de relación social que permite establecer y los aspectos político administrativos del proceso.For more than thirty years the state has supported important investment in social housing, but in Mexico and especially in Mexico City, serious problems of housing still persist. In order to overcome these problems not only enough resources and a housing policy with a clear social emphasis are required but, also, programs that take into account limitations that are detected observing the way homes are used by the families that inhabitant them must be implemented. The aspects that we have have been able to detect as particularly important through our research are related with: the demographic characteristics of the inhabitants, the typology and physical features of the housing, the forms of social interactions that inhabitants establish, and the administrative aspects involved