VIVIENDA POPULAR AUTOCONSTRUIDA

Abstract

The phenomenon of this research study is to carry out the consolidation of popular housing self-constructed through building and home improvement per the self construction, adding the credit system factor. This work was based in descriptive studies of the variables containing in this phenomenon and developed in this thesis. First, it sets a overview of housing in Mexico during the twentieth century, defining the quantitative and qualitative features on it, and saying the housing that eventually they are transformed their role as a producers of housing to housing sponsors creating various housing polices. Theoretical framework was created establishing the theoretical concepts that describe the contemporary public housing, where it can studied from different perspectives such as housing problem, housing typology or housing policies, with these perspectives, the type of popular housing was conceptualized that was observed to perform the conducting research and it was defined as the popular self-constructed housing. To observe the construction of popular self-constructed housing, “colonia La Pastora” was determined as a case of study, it is located on the north of Gustavo A. Madero demarcation; It was considered as a case study for three reasons: It is one of the neighborhoods where the program “Mejoramiento de Vivienda del Distrito Federal” was applied; It´s geographical situation adds particular characteristics and it´s a neighborhood with a high index of marginalization. Of this case of study a sample was obtained to applied the methodological tools of research. Established method, sample characteristics, and by the indicators: housing, family and credit (which can be measured in quality, quantity and time) data is obtained to relate the variables and test the hypothesis as follows: the relationship between the process of self combined with a system of credit (in this case is provided by the “Programa de Mejoramiento”), contribute to building and improving the popular housing.