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“Formulación participativa y concertada de la política pública para los inquilinatos en Medellín” [Joint participatory formulation of public policy for tenement buildings in Medellín] is a study conducted in 2014 by the Escuela del Hábitat-CEHAP, in association with the Talentos and Primavera corporations, for the Social Institute of Housing and Habitat of Medellín, that provides information about a way of inhabiting the city that has for some time been stigmatized and discriminated.
After extensive work in the field, workshops, interviews and surveys, the interdisciplinary team analysed the tenement as “a dwelling administered by a person who, on their own behalf or on the behalf of the building’s owner, rents out rooms to households (individuals or families) who pay daily, weekly or monthly” (Agreement 48, of 2014). It confirmed the diversity of the tenants, administrators and dwellings, as evidenced in a previous study (2006) centring on the city centre, and recognised the complexity of their multiple interrelations.
Today, tenement houses have multiplied in buildings of different characteristics in all neighbourhoods of Medellín, administered by people who define the criteria of admission, the price of the room and the conditions of communal living. The new tenements respond to a varied demand.
In fact the tenants come from all population groups and socio-economic strata, though there is a predominance of households linked to the informal sector, displaced by territorial conflicts or away from their families, for whom the tenement is the only housing option.
By means of an analysis of the different actors and dynamics in the tenement and in the city, the study forms part of the Land Management Plan (Agreement 48, of December 2014), in close connection with the specific public policy for the tenements of Medellín, based on lines of action expressed as housing policy and social policy, which consist in:
