Breaking Down Barriers: Findings from a Literature Review on Housing for People with Disabilities in Latin America

Claudia Valderrama-Ulloa (), Ximena Ferrada and Felipe Herrera
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Claudia Valderrama-Ulloa: Centro de Investigación en Tecnologías para la Sociedad, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad del Desarrollo, Las Condes, Santiago 7610658, Chile
Ximena Ferrada: Centro de Investigación en Tecnologías para la Sociedad, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad del Desarrollo, Las Condes, Santiago 7610658, Chile
Felipe Herrera: Centro de Investigación en Tecnologías para la Sociedad, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad del Desarrollo, Las Condes, Santiago 7610658, Chile

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 6, 1-23

Abstract: Accessibility to housing is crucial for people with disabilities as it provides them with equal opportunities and allows them to live independently. A systematic literature review has been conducted to understand the current research on accessibility in housing for people with disabilities in Latin America. The study analysed 56 papers and used co-word analysis to identify common themes and topics within the documents. The results of the analysis showed that Brazil (61%) is the country with the most research on the subject, physical disability, at 36%, is the impairment most analysed, and interventions or analysis for the older people (45%) in their homes is the most researched type of population. The co-word analysis revealed that topics such as policy, regulations, the use of technologies, ergonomics interventions, and architectural criteria or barriers to the daily life of disabled people were frequently discussed in the papers. Although this work shows a substantial and growing increase in research on housing for people with disabilities in Latin America, it also demonstrates the importance of increasing research on other types of impairment, such as visual and cognitive-intellectual disabilities, and including children, caregivers, or even young adults.

Keywords: co-words analysis; residential building; disabled people; physical disability; visual disability; intellectual disability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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