Appropriate Housing for an Autonomous Community Social Self-Management of Habitat in an Indigenous Biocultural Context

Abstract

The article presents a proposal for social management of housing in autonomous indigenous communities, in line with the right to adequate housing established in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. The idea is for the inhabitants of these communities to identify their needs and generate their own strategy to achieve a better quality of life from their bio-cultural context and spatial experience. A self-management approach to habitat and a mixed methodology, both qualitative and quantitative, is proposed for group recognition, socio-spatial analysis, diagnosis, and definition of self-management strategies. The analysis will be carried out in the Community of San Francisco Pichátaro, in the municipality of Tingambato Michoacán, where a consolidated social and political organization and strongly rooted cultural identity values are observed. It is expected that the research results will allow for the development of solid proposals to improve and advance housing in autonomous communities, in coherence with cultural, environmental, and productive principles, promoting the construction of affordable, fair, and sustainable habitat scenarios.

Keywords: Adequate Housing, Biocultural, Social Self-Management, Habitat