This paper states that housing policies have traditionally produced housing types that come from national averages with capacities that are not always suitable to family sizes. If averages were replaced by typologies that would better adapt to family, sizes the results could imply considerable savings in the investments families must make in order to adapt the allocated houses to their families. Most of the times such modifications are carried out informally and without the appropriate technology sine no responsible professionals are available. At the same time, the state could make a better use of its resources if it did not make a certain number of houses larger than required and by making a more rational and satisfactory use of the soil.
Author Biography
Jorge Vallejos Arcos, Universidad de Valparaíso
Arquitecto, Generalista en Vivienda, Ma. En Filosofía, Académico Escuela de Arquitectura de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Valparaíso.
Vallejos Arcos, J. (2000). The Use of Family Composition and Developed Surface Patterns for an Effective Allocation of Social Housing. Revista INVI, 15(40). https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-8358.2000.62110
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