Abstract

VERGARA DURAN, RICARDO ADRIÁN. HOUSING AND SURROUNDINGS IMPROVEMENT IN BOGOTA 1994-1998:: PROGRAMS, CONCEPTS AND STRATEGIES. Investig. desarro. [online]. 2008, vol.16, n.1, pp.196-225. ISSN 0121-3261.

Habitat continues to be the most acute problem for lower income population in Latin America. However, it's not only a quantitative problem, but fundamentally a qualitative one in which habituated spaces and their environments that dignify living conditions in these spaces. Strategies for housing renewal are aimed at these qualitative issues. The subsidies for housing and Urban renewals program in Colombia produced a significant impact on quality of live and development variables, especially in Bogotá thus becoming an important case study. This paper presents the results of a study based on extensive field work, interviews to subsidy beneficiaries , and housing renewal proponents that took part in the Programs, concepts and strategies for housing renewal , as part of a housing subsidies policy in Colombia until 1998.

Keywords : Improvement of house; quality of urban life; Housing Renewal assistance.

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