Local Governance Dynamics in Strategic Spatial Planning for Sustainable Development of Social Housing The case of the Metropolitan Area of the AburrĂĄ Valley
Danny AndrĂŠs Osorio Gaviria
Abstract Nowadays, one of the most critical issues in Latin American cities is the high quantitative and qualitative deficit of housing. In the specific case of the Metropolitan Area of the AburrĂĄ Valley, the second most populated metropolitan area in Colombia, the problems related to housing are associated to the deficit of housing units, dwellings in high risk areas and poor habitability conditions. As part of the vision of the public entities to solve these issues the Metropolitan Strategic Plan for Housing and Habitat with Environmental Perspective was formulated. This strategic plan must be coordinated with the National System of Social Housing to provide general guidance to municipalities and regulations on the metropolitan issues. In this regard, some research questions emerge: What is the condition, concerning governance, of the local context where the plan will be applied? And more particularly, how is the articulation of the public policies given in the Metropolitan Strategic Plan for Housing and Habitat with Environmental Perspective among the local governance dynamics? The starting point of this research is a review of the metropolitan and local context where the plan will be applied. In second place, the mechanisms of regulation contemplated in this plan at local level will be analyzed from a perspective of Strategic Spatial Planning as a process led by the public sector, focused on specific strategic issues and the implementation of visions, actions and means in the solution of complex problems at different levels [Albrechts, 2003]. Finally, the review of the local context will be confronted with the theoretical perspectives on local governance and how is the implementation process to the specific features of the place in terms of strategic spatial planning and sustainable development. The expected result of this analysis is the understanding of the relevance of the Metropolitan Strategic Plan for Housing and Habitat with Environmental Perspective as a planning instrument of strategic and prospective management at local level, which allows to develop and coordinate the metropolitan public policies applied to social housing in coherence and consistency with local policies of the municipalities as a consolidation process of the political agreements in the model of occupation and qualification of the local habitat. Keywords: Social Housing, Public Policy, Governance, Strategic Spatial Planning, Housing Policy.
Strategic Spatial Planning [H02N1a] _ KU Leuven 20015
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