La política de vivienda en la Argentina desarrollista: de un problema económico a un problema político

Abstract

This paper focuses on the debates regarding housing policy in Argentina during the developmentalist era (1955-1976). Through an analysis of both official documents and secondary sources, an analysis is conducted on the relationship of hypothesis on economic backwardness, diagnoses on housing deficits and public intervention recommendations. Questions on housing policy had a primarily economic emphasis between the 50s and mid-60s, according to the
underdevelopment hypothesis together with the expectation of technical solutions to social issues. Between the mid-60s and the mid-60s a shift is observed, with a political emphasis that agrees with the structural heterogeneity hypothesis and the recognition of the inevitability of social conflict. Both subperiods reflect the shift from an early- or naïve-developmentalism into a late- or complex-developmentalism.