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Family support networks: the economic and domestic motivation to get close to peripheral areas of Santiago de Chile

Authors

  • Valentina Saavedra Fundación Vértice, Santiago, Chile.
  • Paulina Gatica Fundación Vértice / Escuela de Pedagogía en Historia y Geografía, Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Santiago, Chile. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3356-7471
No. 57 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5370.2019.53630

Abstract

Chile, during the 1980’s and 1990’s, was widely highlighted by its ability to reduce the housing deficit. However, current statistics show that this control has lost its effectiveness in recent years, with a rise in the housing deficit and allegation, in the communes that received the largest number of social housing during the aforementioned period. The present investigation proposes to characterize this rise and explore the reasons that the population has to demand housing in peripheral sectors, far from the service and equipment areas. This is explored from the theory, access to housing, closeness and family support networks. Specifically, two villages located in the district of Puente Alto in Santiago of Chile were analyzed, under a mixed methodological approach that considered the use of quantitative and qualitative techniques such as statistical data analysis and semi-structured interviews. The results of the research suggest that it is the support networks that sustain the interest of the population to stay in the peripheral communes since there are their family and neighborhood networks, which are constituted as economic and domestic subsistence networks for households, above all, emerging.

Keywords:

Access to housing, closeness, family support networks

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Saavedra, V., & Gatica, P. (2019). Family support networks: the economic and domestic motivation to get close to peripheral areas of Santiago de Chile. Investigaciones Geográficas, (57). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5370.2019.53630
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