The Valle del Yaqui Project : building the capacity of Yaqui women to help themselves

A case study and evaluation, of a low-income housing program for single Yaqui mothers in Mexico, the Programa de Vivienda Ecologica (PVE). The PVE Program is a response to the desperate housing needs of the Yaqui, which employs micro-credit lending strategies to finance the purchase of a home. The financial model allows the PVE Program to also deal with the issues of economic, social and political integration that that the Yaqui, one of the oldest and poorest native communities in the American continent, suffer. The PVE goal is to create more culturally, economical, and ecologically appropriate housing. The thesis uses economic and housing data from the Mexican government to explore the root sources of the housing problem the poor in Mexico face today. It also looks at the Yaqui's own response to the PVE program through interviews of program participants conducted in the field. A recent collaboration with US and Mexican Universities, is also investigated, and evaluated both for its capacity to contribute to this housing program, and its impact on the education of the students.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2006

Author dc:creator

• Palleroni, Sergio

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Mark Jarzombek.

• Architecture.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35122

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/35122