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狈别飞听惫辞耻肠丑别谤听programs for low-income families in Santiago and Valparaiso: residential mobility or struggle against segregation?
Primary supervisor:聽Dr Sonia Arbaci
Secondary supervisor:聽Dr Nicola Livingstone
Sponsor:听叠别肠补蝉听颁丑颈濒别
厂迟补谤迟听诲补迟别:听厂别辫迟别尘产别谤听2019
Projected completion date:听厂别辫迟别尘产别谤听2023
Santiago and Valparaiso are two of the 迟丑谤别别听most unequal urban areas in Chile (Mac-Clure,2011). Informal housing strategies such as co-residence聽(allegamiento)听in Santiago and self-built settlements聽(campamentos)听in Valparaiso have increased at levels only comparable with the 1980s (Techo, 2018) and housing policies seem not to alleviate the lack of housing for low-income families. The previous make relevant to find out the effectiveness of recent聽voucher housing policies in promoting residential mobility, desegregation and access to housing in both cities.
The research aims to understand the interplay among 迟丑谤别别听sociospatial processes: Residential Segregation, Residential Mobility and Housing Production. The latter with an emphasis on informal housing strategies聽and recent housing policies聽in the metropolitan areas of Santiago and Valparaiso, for the period 1992-2017.
A historical analysis of segregation and housing production will be conducted in both cities. An assessment of recent housing policies such as the 鈥淐hao Suegra鈥� rental subsidy and 鈥�2nd chance鈥� social housing subsidy will be developed. The previous, in order to understand the effectiveness of聽the housing programs.
The success of the policies in promoting聽access to housing聽in low-income families will interact with the formal/informal housing strategies they pursue and the dynamics of residential segregation (patterns, resistances).聽The research聽will contribute to a comprehensive analysis of segregation and its structural factors, in order to develop a research line in Chilean and Latin-American cities, under a comparative contextual divergence perspective.
The relevance of this聽飞辞谤办听is its contribution to decolonise the debate on segregation, developing contextualised analysis in Chile and Latin America, considering historical factors such as informality, the inclusion of聽vouchers in housing policies and residential mobility recent changes.
Biography
Cristobal Diaz (Chile),聽Bachelor degree in聽History,聽Geography聽and Social Sciences (Universidad de Santiago de Chile) and聽Master聽degree聽in Urban Development聽(Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile). Professional experience as school and university teacher, research assistant in urban studies and geography projects, participation in seminars and publications. Research student of the Planning Studies MPhil/PhD since September 2019 and part of the research group on Cities, Governance and Planning.
- Publications
2019: 鈥淭he overflowing of institutionality and the new citizen territoriality鈥�. Institute of Housing, Universidad de Chile. In聽
2018: 鈥淓xplosi贸n inmobiliaria en Estaci贸n Central y proyecto Nueva Alameda Providencia: posibilidades de contribuci贸n al espacio p煤blico鈥�. Revista PLANEO, No35, marzo, Latindex, ISSN: 0719-2932. In聽
2016: 鈥淩ancagua: la universidad, la descentralizaci贸n y las posibilidades como polo de desarrollo regional鈥�, en Revista Planeo, No27, abril, Latindex, ISSN: 0719-2932.聽In聽
- Conference papers/presentations
2020: 鈥淗ousing crisis and recent housing policies in Santiago and Buenos Aires: new subsidies as an opportunity for the poor or the market?鈥� Presentation in the session 鈥淲ho is governing Latin American cities? Exploring contemporary urban development processes from a comparative perspective, in conference SLAS2020: Mind the gap: strengthening connections in Latin American Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2019: 鈥�(Not so) new geographies of housing in Santiago de Chile and recent housing policies: deepening segregation or improving residential mobility?鈥� Presentation in COES and LSE Conference 2019: Inequalities, conflict and change: perspectives and cases from Latin America, Panel 6: Segregation and urban inequalities.
2017: 鈥淐onocimiento espacial, SIG y Geograf铆a en terreno para una educaci贸n interdisciplinar鈥�. Presentation in Seminar: El rol de las did谩cticas espec铆ficas en la formaci贸n de profesores, Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
- Teaching
2017-2018: Centre of Educational Policies and Pedagogical Research (CPEIP, Chile). Professor and lecturer in the postgraduate course for primary teachers 鈥淕eography in primary education: experiences and resources鈥�.
2016-2018: Universidad Diego Portales (UDP, Chile), module on Geography for undergraduate level.
2015-2017: Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH, Chile), various modules on Geography, Urban studies and education.
- Related Links
COES (Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesi贸n social) PhD research student,
RED de Estudios para la profundizaci贸n democr谩tica. Collaborator, 聽