The selfacting paradigm: habitat social production in Argentina after the civil-institutional crisis in 2001

Abstract

The recent Argentinian crisis, initiated at the end of 2001, induced to a particular and new condition of activation in the expresion´s way of the society. Although with the course of time that renewal in social practices was re-absorbed by the institutional structure and the same political class that initiated the crisis, some advances have been registered in the social production of habitat issue. The approval of the Law 341in the City of Buenos Aires allowed the delivery of subsidies for the construction of social housing by the National State to cooperatives and intermediate organizations, which changed the axis of their actions for enlist into significant construction´s projects to face the present situation of residence deficit of his members. In this way, groups of diverse origins in the social field, related in another time with the occupation of real estate as the MOI (Movement of Occupants and Tenants), groups of the block “piquetero” as the MTL (Territorial Movement of Liberation) or the Plaza de Mayo Mothers, nowadays are in full activity for the production of social housing. From this perspective, the present work tries to realize the recent experiences of counterurbanization, wich have in essence an argumentative spirit to the new forms of distinguishing expansion of the city. It is a question of self-administration construction of social housing that put into practice actions and instruments for containment and inclusion, with the intention of mitigating the effects of these asymmetries.