Estrategias habitacionales de familias de sectores populares y medios residentes en el área metropolitana de Buenos Aires (Argentina)

• Main Authors: María Mercedes di Virgilio, María Laura Gil y de Anso
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de los Andes 2012-12-01
• Series: Revista de Estudios Sociales
• Subjects: Housing Strategies; Residential Paths; Class Structure; Popular and Middle Class Families; Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.
• Online Access: http://res.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/811/index.php?id=811

This article analyzes the various ways in which families face difficult habitat access conditions in the post-Fordist city. In order to do this, we have comparatively explored the housing strategies implemented by popular and middle class families residing in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area (Argentina). We have chosen popular and middle class families as a response to our interest in analyzing the effects that position in the class structure has on the actions carried out by families for their reproduction. From this point of view, the logic, the decisions, and the goals that lead to access to habitat and to the resources that are mobilized, vary according to the position that families occupy in the class structure. In this article, we advance in the analysis of housing strategies, emphasizing the differences and similarities that are observed among social groups that occupy differential positions in this structure but live in nearby locations in the city, and among social groups occupying similar positions in production and consumption but who reside in different areas and/or locations of the urban space.