Diseño conceptual de “Observatorio de Vivienda en Ecuador”

Abstract

In the last decades, the Ecuadorian cities dynamics shows an important urban population increase. Unfortunately, this rise often originates slum settlements because of absence of adequate public politics. Housing, as the fundamental unit of city, can reflect this issue and show the way where it must start moving on.

The Urban Housing Observatory is an urban tool enables to generate information to know the conditions of public politics in this area. The Ecuador’s Constitution establish housing as a fundamental right, no matter social and economic situation. It especially disposes that it must warranties dignity and an adequate environment for development. The Urban Housing Observatory in Ecuador focus on keep under control the different housing politics and verify that it will be decent and adequate above to real-estate market interests. This research aims to measure Ecuadorian housing real status through indicators; therefore, it is based on a right with two components: subject rights and rights which subject confers on the object -housing-. The resultant indicators are a transcendental component of the Urban Housing Observatory; which seeks to manage and integrate information to make correct decisions regarding the public housing policy.