Social housing programs and their economic viability in Portoviejo

Abstract

Social housing programs and their economic viability in Portoviejo become a priority in the urban and rural context of Portoviejo. Social housing programs are challenged by the high cost of land acquisition, construction materials, and labor, as well as the lack of access to loans or adequate financing, and the lack of adequate infrastructure and basic services in certain areas. Portoviejo, which become a challenge for the economic viability of social housing projects. The objective is to analyze the social housing programs and their economic viability in Portoviejo, by comparing costs, for the proposal of a social housing at a lower value than those offered in the local market. For the concretion of the same methods of the theoretical level were used: analysis - synthesis, inductive - deductive and historical - logical, for the incursion of the theoretical essences that base the article. A survey aimed at civil engineers was also used, with closed response options, with a Likert scale from 1 to 5, and documentary review. The main results focused on low user satisfaction, inaccessible costs that demand a solution, as well as the construction of social housing with sandwich panels that the construction time would be shorter compared to other traditional types of construction. Conclusively, it is feasible to build the aforementioned houses to satisfy the demand that exists in the canton.