Some paradoxes on housing

Abstract

Issues about housing are generally analysed from an objective point of view, this is, from the quantifiable materiality that allows an interpretation of the these complex processes of production. However, this supposedly objective perspective gives rise to paradoxical discourses and practices with perverse effects. Thus, the assessment of the market dynamics are not enough to explain the rising of prices nor the increasing of housing shortages nor the growing insolvent demand. Public housing policies only face some fringes of the involsvent demand and, in that way, they are contributing to the growing of this kind of demand.