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CONCLUSION The purpose of this thesis was to highlight how the introduction of neoliberalism in Chile from 1973 has directly affected its social housing climate. Neoliberal hegemony and austerity brought upon a hardship for many of Chile’s poorer inhabitants, by the privatising of industries and an increased deficiency in access to housing provisions. At the start of the twenty-first century amongst a newly found democratic governmentality, Elemental aimed to reshape the social housing scene, using an incremental building method to alleviate the poorest members of the community from their socio-economic status. Despite their strict budgetary framework from policies still harbouring neoliberal ideologies, their prototype, The Parallel Building sought out to maximise state funding and the savings of the Quinta Monroy residents, to provide a home capable of emulating that of a typical middle-class typology, after the incrementality phase had been completed. Question marks are raised over their “social” epitome status awarded by the Pritzker Prize Laureate in 2016, as many residents had to endure subsequent years of financial burden, buying into a neoliberal scheme, in order to complete the unfinished home, they were granted. That being said, the value appreciation of the homes they now own have provided them with an outcome not equal to the sum of its parts. As result, it can be justified that incrementality does have a role in social housing within the neoliberal twenty-first century, but one that should echo times of the socialism from Allende et al, that shifts state capital from our economically orientated policies.
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