Strangers with different economic needs come to live together in social housing projects, posing an organizational challenge. In most current Latin American cities, this tends to be in standardized complexes with small apartments in segregated peripheries. Many residents change from living in informal neighborhoods to a different type of urban citizenship based on partially subsidized home ownership, which they experience as social mobility. Others already live in the formal city and buy their apartments without a subsidy. How neighbors relate to each other, handle conflicts, and organize becomes a practical problem that worries governments, residents, and developers. This article analyzes tensions in social housing complexes in Bogotá, in relation to national regulations, architectural design, and residents’ hopes and aspirations. Based on survey and ethnographic data, it claims that the rigid material and normative environment of social housing negatively affects neighborly relations, resulting in lack of trust, conflicts, and working against a sense of community. It shows that educational community programs serve as vehicles for “normalization” and atomization according to middle‐class ideals of citizenship. Residents embrace the restrictions that suit their aspirations for social mobility and inclusion, yet negotiate others in the face of economic need.

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波哥大社会住房居民的正常化：第三世界城市周边地区的阶级张力

具有不同经济需求的陌生人一起生活在社会住房项目中，构成了组织上的挑战。在目前的大多数拉丁美洲城市中，这往往是在标准化的综合体中，外围是分散的小公寓。许多居民从居住在非正式社区中转变为基于部分补贴的房屋所有权的不同类型的城市公民，他们经历了社会流动。其他人已经住在正式城市，没有补贴就购买了他们的公寓。邻居之间如何相互联系，处理冲突和组织，已成为困扰政府，居民和开发商的实际问题。本文分析了波哥大社会住房综合体中与国家法规，建筑设计以及居民的希望和愿望有关的紧张局势。根据调查和人种学数据，它声称社会住房的僵化的物质和规范环境会对邻居关系产生负面影响，从而导致缺乏信任，冲突并破坏社区意识。它表明，根据中产阶级公民理想，教育社区计划可作为“正常化”和原子化的工具。居民接受适合自己的社会流动性和包容性的限制，但面对经济需要与他人进行谈判。它表明，根据中产阶级公民理想，教育社区计划可作为“正常化”和原子化的工具。居民接受适合自己的社会流动性和包容性的限制，但面对经济需要与他人进行谈判。它表明，根据中产阶级公民理想，教育社区计划可作为“正常化”和原子化的工具。居民接受适合自己的社会流动性和包容性的限制，但面对经济需要与他人进行谈判。