Segregación urbana, exclusión residencial y políticas públicas

Abstract

This doctoral thesis aims to analyze the public policies that derive from the constitutional mandate that obliges public authorities to promote the necessary conditions and establish the relevant rules to enforce the right to decent and adequate housing. Given the non-compliance at the state level and in the Region of Murcia that constitutional mandate to legislate and enforce the right to housing (López, F. 2010, p. 11-24; 2014, p. 49-86; FOESSA, 2019 p. 349) that historically affects social groups suffering residential exclusion and ethnic discrimination, at present, housing policy practices are taking shape, characterized in the Region of Murcia by the disappearance of publicly promoted social housing and by the assumption of new practices of rehousing populations residing in shantytowns and substandard housing based on the dispersion of families (Río Ruiz, 2014, p.56 ), in collaboration with external agents that are going to play an important - and limited - role in the promotion and development of programs and projects that aim to provide access to adequate and decent housing for the poorest and ethnically stigmatized populations. In relation to this objective, this research will analyze the housing systems that determine the living conditions of the affected social groups based on the indicators of Cortés (1995), habitability, adequacy, stability and accessibility, which take the form of principles or rights that must be satisfied for housing to be considered dignified and adequate, as well as the historical processes of eviction and rehousing that affect its inhabitants. However, in order to know the development of public policies during the years 2012 to 2022, a field analysis of extreme residential exclusion has been carried out, for which I resort to the methodological perspective of Pierre Bourdieu's field to which I apply tools of the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), for the analysis of the discourse of public actors or agents (political-administrative), of private actors (social entities and media), methodology whose application will produce the significance of the important role of the actors that shape it, of their discourses and their practices, in a field of struggles on which the provision of social housing for the affected groups will depend, thus showing, this doctoral thesis, a moment of historical change of the model of public policy of social housing for populations suffering extreme residential exclusion.