Geographies of the Provision Metropolitan Social Housing in Medellín (2002-2020)

Abstract

In the last two decades, the management model for the provision of social housing in Colombia has changed within the framework of a neoliberal urban regime with spatial implications at a metropolitan scale. The objective is to analyze the geographies of the provision of social housing in Medellín and its metropolitan environment within the framework of the public policies of the neoliberal urban regime. Methodologically, it is developed through three phases, a theoretical review of the change of urban regime going from a developmental regime to a neoliberal one, the identification of the legal-technical framework that governs the provision of social housing in Colombia, and finally, a characterization of the structuring processes of a new neoliberal urban regime in terms of the provision of social housing in the metropolitan environment of Medellín, contrasting the public policies of housing provision with the geographies produced by them with the building activity. The results show how new geographies of social housing provision have been produced in the last two decades, with the management model prevailing on each property basis and the growth of urbanization on a regional scale.