El derecho a la vivienda y fallidas estrategias posdesastre en México

• Main Author: Daniel Rodríguez Velázquez
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Institut Français d'Études Andines 2014-12-01
• Series: Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines
• Subjects: normality; post-disaster recovery policy; modernization; housing rights; public treasury; social resilience
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/bifea/5917

The absence of governmental strategies of disaster prevention in Mexico and the omission of responsibility in a society dominated by financial markets and free trade, lead to a justification of disasters as inevitable. The perspective of the right to appropriate housing contributes to an understanding that vulnerability is being increased by the post-disaster recovery programs and by the absence of a political decision to work with the affected population. In this article the author proposes a preventive and participative focus, based on a new conception of security that is centered in the human individual.