La cotidianeidad de la periferia popular: Entre el olvido y la constante intervención

Abstract

Chilean social housing policy in the eighties and nineties built massive housing complexes of low quality and low footage. The territories in which those housing projects were built became a segregated periphery, poor both in urban services as well in accessibility.  Upon their arrival, the inhabitants of these complexes experienced the abandonment of the State, which did not provide basic public services such as health, education or transportation, triggering significant social problems in these territories. Over time, social programs have been created to solve the housing and urban problems of these territories, with alternatives ranging from beautification to demolition. Life in these housing projects has gone from the absence of the State, to its constant presence through several interventions. Through in-depth interviews with inhabitants of these neighborhoods, this article seeks to reconstruct, the way in which the transition from State absence to over-intervention has marked the daily life of these territories.