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CUERVO CALLE, Juan José. House Modern Housing as a Commodity: Colombia, 1942-1991. Am. Lat. Hist. Econ [online]. 2015, vol.22, n.1, pp.179-212. ISSN 2007-3496.

This text takes a general overview to the social housing in Colombia in between the years of 1940 to 1991, a temporary stage that evidences two important moments. The first one, where the housing is strongly influenced by modern architecture movement, the consolidation of state institutions, and the contribution made by the international missions: father Lebret participation, the economist Lauchlin Currie, and the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA). A second moment that illustrates the framework that modern house had in Colombia as commodity as a consequence of the State's economic development strategy that was planned throughout a concentration of resources in the financing, production, and construction of social housing in order to get the country out of crisis typecasting the house in the field of capital accumulation.

Palavras-chave : social housing; modernity; international missions; housing as a commodity.

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