Women inhabit in social housing in the context of Covid-19: The case of Bajos de Mena, Chile

Social housing is one of the most relevant ongoing issues in Chile. Whitin Santiago’s Metropolitan area, on the outskirts of the city, there’s the existence of numerous housing complexes with precarious standards for daily life. These residential areas outcome in a women’s socio-territorial vulnerab...

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Autor principal: De Dios Sandoval, Berenice
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Instituto de Investigación de Vivienda y Hábitat 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/ReViyCi/article/view/34426
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Sumario:Social housing is one of the most relevant ongoing issues in Chile. Whitin Santiago’s Metropolitan area, on the outskirts of the city, there’s the existence of numerous housing complexes with precarious standards for daily life. These residential areas outcome in a women’s socio-territorial vulnerability status, since they inhabit them for extended periods of time throughout the day. In the effort to mitigate the covid-19 pandemic, local authorities have imposed measurements that require longer quarantines and confinement by staying inside the house. This article aims to reveal the socio spatial dynamics of women in their housing environment in relation to care and work activities that those health measurements require, also point out towards the discussion existing on behalf the inequalities in which women are inserted, specially focusing on the women living in Villa Marta Brunet, El Volcán II and III in Bajos de Mena locality. The results obtained visualize a critical relationship and territorial reorganizations on these three scales: urban environment, neighborhood, and housing.