Territorial Integration: Opportunity for Low-Income Families to Live in Sectors with Higher Incomes and Equipment? A Look at the Possibilities Offered by the Market, the State and the Way of Informality

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the options of territorial integration that exist in the city of Santiago, with respect to the possibility that low-income families can obtain housing in communes with good conditions of quality of urban life and that also do not congregate large masses of vulnerable families living in the same territory. The above, studied through the construction of quantitative data, graph the opportunities that currently exist to access a home, either through the private market, state support or informal actions. The data analysis concludes that none of these roads allows improving the territorial integration of the most vulnerable families in the country, leaving the question as to why the State does not promote with greater force mechanisms that allow achieving this objective, taking into account the different benefits that this process brings according to different experts.