Abstract

CREMASCHI, Verónica. Neighborhoods built during the first peronism in Mendoza, Argentina. Institutions and strategies. Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2016, n.50, pp.35-55. ISSN 1668-8104.

This article focuses on the financing mechanisms used by the federal and provincial governments to complete housing projects during the first Peronist administration in the province of Mendoza. This researcher has studied and contrasted documents such as newspaper articles, official government documents, blueprints, and decrees by the Instituto Provincial de la Vivienda (Provincial Institute for Housing, or IPV). These documents provided data that allowed us to better understand the actions and strategies jointly coordinated by the IPV and the Banco Hipotecario Nacional (National Mortgage Bank) to realize these housing projects during this period. In addition to the coordinated actions of these institutions, this article highlights the active participation of worker unions in the decision-making processes before, during and after the construction of these housing projects.             We conclude that the financing strategies used to accomplish these projects were conditioned by the relationships between the provincial and the federal governments of this period, and that worker unions were also active and important participants in the realization of these projects

Keywords : Housing; Financing; First peronism; Mendoza.