Abstract

ROSA, Paula  and  TOSCANI, María de la Paz. Intermittent inhabitants, between the street and the hotel-pension. New approaches to an old problem in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. Rev. colomb. soc. [online]. 2020, vol.43, n.2, pp.23-44.  Epub May 08, 2021. ISSN 0120-159X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcs.v43n2.82811.

This article aims to characterize a sub-group of street inhabitants living in the City of Buenos Aires (CABA). We refer to a population that is part of a housing "circuit" that articulates residence in a rented room in a hotel-pension with living in public space. This group presents particularities towards the "traditional" street inhabitant who mainly develops his daily life in the streets, a situation also existing in a habitual and increasing way. It is interesting to analyze the experience of living in the street, from a wide perspective that contemplates those who live in a "discontinuous" way. This population called intermittent street inhabitants, is produced and reproduced from the way that the public policies aimed at these sectors. We refer to a program based on the delivery of "housing subsidies" to rent a room in a hotel-pension. This program turns out to be one of the main policies that the city has to mitigate the housing problem. From the policy, it is conceived that the access to this aid is an answer or "solution" to the emergency that causes to be living in the street. However, as we will try to show in this work, this type of intervention not only does not lead to a definitive solution but also deepens the reproduction of the social and housing problems that involve the beneficiaries of the program. The results presented in this article based on the results, on primary sources from the authors' doctoral Thesis. One of them analyzed the life experience of street inhabitants and the other worked on the problematic of the inhabitants of hotel-pension. The present article based on the search for points of contact and differentiation between both investigations.

Descriptors: Argentina, homeless, housing needs, poverty, social programmes, urban sociology.

Keywords : hotel-pension inhabitants; housing allowance; housing problem; inhabitants of the street; public politics; stigma.

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