Abstract

RAFFA, Cecilia. INDIVIDUALES Y COLECTIVAS: La vivienda popular en la agenda política y técnica del período conservador (Mendoza, 1932-1943). Rev. hist. am. argent. [online]. 2015, vol.50, n.2, pp.37-63. ISSN 2314-1549.

The first half of the twentieth century was a period of discussion and experimentation on the subject of popular room. The interest in the modernization of the habitat, the industrialization of construction and the need for cheaper housing for the "popular housing" made some provincial governments began to raise its intervention in the housing issue through public policies that facilitate the access to housing. This article presents the technical and political action of the conservative period around the popular housing, ie on individual or collective housing inexpensive aimed at middle and low social sectors, provided by the State in bulk and responding to proposals technical, in our case, inserts in the state bureaucracy architects. We address, in historical key projects and consider concretions placed Mendoza as one of the first provinces to address the "problem of housing" from the state orbit in the thirties.

Keywords : public housing; technical field; political field; conservative government; Mendoza.