Necesidades habitacionales multidimensionales consensuadas como fundamento de una política habitacional integral

Abstract

The historical and hegemonic conception of “public social housing” is closely related to the perception of the problem and its approach from housing policy at alrge. The starting point of this article is the prevailing conception of the “satisfier” through which the housing policy has provided answers to housing needs. This conception, which understands housing as a finished physical object associated with a plot of land, produced serially and standardized by construction companies, for anonymous recipients who do not participate in the process and to whom the homes are awarded as property, is used as a reference, to define and quantify the problem and induce solutions. This notion is conditioned by the interests of economic and political actors who put into play strategies and resources to influence the different moments of the housing policy construction process. This article intends to review the main theo[1]retical contributions in the field of social habitat and housing policies, which from a critical position on the concept of “public social housing”, have raised counter-hegemonic discourses by virtue of advancing towards the construction of a concept of needs basic multidimensional housing projects agreed from an approach of balance between universality and particularity.