Social interest housing in intermediate cities of Peru

Social representations and practices of social innovation

Abstract

In the urban context of the neighborhoods where the low-income housing is located in Peru, we reflect on the daily experience of living expressed in the social representations and in the practices of social innovation of the residents. We study cases of housing policy located on the periphery of intermediate cities. The construction of these neighborhoods ignores the particular characteristics of the physical, environmental and sociocultural environment. Residents generate processes of social innovation to adapt what has been built to their individual and collective needs. The results reveal the appropriation of expandable homes and collective environments through the social construction of space to mold the place to their expectations and ways of living in the city.