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Background:
People-centered production, upgrading and management of housing encompasses both the process and products arising from people’s collective initiative at building their own habitats in the form of dwellings, villages, neighborhoods and even large parts of cities. By using social production processes, the affected people design, plan, implement and maintain living spaces and urban advantages creating solutions to the problems arising from their living conditions.
 
A People-Centered Process:
Social production is a people-centred process.  It can be exercised through several self-management modalities beginning with the individual spontaneous self-production, to highly organizational levels of collective production with sophisticated negotiation, complex products, broad participation and well-development management. It often involves a joint venture between communities and local governments, and sometimes the private sector. Its purposes are not lucrative, but practical problem solving and, thus, the realization of human rights consistent with principles of human dignity, State responsibility and fairness are easily exemplified.

People-centred production, upgrading and management of housing and human settlements happen in rural and urban spheres.

It applies and builds upon local, social capital and features social control of:

1. Priority-setting,
2. Planning,
3. Construction,
4. Distribution and use of land, housing and neighbourhoods.

Community-based production of housing means collective action satisfies human needs. It considers housing and habitat as the culmination of a process and not only as a material product; but, as an organic, social and cultural output and not an object of exchange; as assets built in partnership of labour, time, expertise, materials and money from all the stakeholders.

Women are leaders and key actors at processes of social production of habitat. Women embrace, construct and fight for adequate housing as "a place to live in peace and dignity", which is inextricably bound to the workplace, child-raising, education, health, care for the elderly, and personal security, as well living conditions as a whole, including also emotion and psychological security for the family, particularly women and children.

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