Housing and health through building technical assistance (ATHIS): Limits and potentialities from an experience at Vila Brandina, Campinas-SP

Authors

  • Isabela de Oliveira Bastos Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas
  • Patrícia Rodrigues Samora Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/siiu.12212

Abstract

Brazilian cities are unequal regarding housing access. About 6 million families live in precarious houses, in addition to other more than 24 million, in inadequate dwellings, environments that can cause and aggravate diseases. Historically, some initiatives have been developed to promote health through housing interventions. Since the emergence of COVID-19 pandemics, the Architecture and Urban Planning Council (CAU), has also been considering technical assistance to social housing (ATHIS) as a possibility to associate housing improvements and health promotion. This paper aims to discuss the limits and potentialities of this hypothesis from a practical experience carried out at Vila Brandina, in Campinas-SP. Besides field research, the investigation relies on literature review and data collection. The results, still partials, reveal the challenges to consolidating ATHIS and its difficulty in really contributing to health promotion.

Keywords: housing inequalities, housing improvements, health promotion, building technical assistance (ATHIS)

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Published

2022-12-15

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SIIU2022_CURITIBA