Abstract

The production of subsidized housing in the city of Arica, Chile is analyzed. Through a mixed methodological approach, combining statistical, mobile and oral techniques, government rhetoric of urban social integration in subsidized housing is discussed. The results show us that social housing in Arica has redefined the northern and southern peripheries of the city. The evaluation around the same urban criteria that underpin the policy allows us to interpret that the production of social housing takes the form of a state precariopolis, marked by peripheral densification, monofunctional spaces, isolated from the equipment of the consolidated city and fragmentation at neighborhood scale.