Print Email Facebook Twitter Social housing in Portugal and in the municipality of São Paulo: Comparison of space standards Title Social housing in Portugal and in the municipality of São Paulo: Comparison of space standards Author Costa Branco De Oliveira Pedro, J.A. Boueri, J.J. Faculty OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Department OTB Onderzoek Date 2010-12-31 Abstract This paper compares the space standards for social housing in Portugal and in São Paulo, and seeks explanations for differences in the socio-economic context of both territories. The Controlled Cost Housing (CCH) in Portugal and the housing built within the program My Home My Life (MHML) in São Paulo Municipality are studied. The number and type of rooms, the internal floor area of dwellings, the size of rooms, and the list and size of furniture and equipment are compared. Three research questions are addressed: Which program has more demanding space standards? Which social-economic conditions explain the differences in space standards? How different space standards influence the users' satisfaction? To answer these questions, the study compares socio-economic indicators, space standards and users' satisfaction of both territories. The study has shown that space standards set for the construction of social housing in CCH are more demanding than in MHML program. For instance, a CCH dwelling has almost two times the gross area of a MHML dwelling with the same number of rooms. The differences in space standards contribute to make the price of housing affordable to low income households in São Paulo Municipality. Although social houses are substantially smaller in São Paulo Municipality than in Portugal, the satisfaction level of dwellers with the size of dwellings is higher in São Paulo. We conclude that different political options regarding how to provide housing to low income households directly influence the space standards set for dwellings and therefore their quality. Subject social housingspace standardsPortugalBrazil To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f8523a6e-ad29-4988-82bf-e1ab131f63fb Publisher International Association for Housing Science ISBN 9788469366554 Source 37th IAHS World Congress on Housing Science "Design, Technology, Refurbisment and Management of Buildings", 26-29 October 2010, Santander, Spain Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2010 Delft University of Technology Files PDF 265895.pdf 36.47 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f8523a6e-ad29-4988-82bf-e1ab131f63fb/datastream/OBJ/view