Housing Induce Poverty: A conceptual framework and characterization for Ecuador 2006-2014

This research proposes the measurement of housing-induced poverty in Ecuador for the years 2006 and 2014, as a complement to the poverty measurement criteria used in Ecuador, by quantifying and analyzing the situation of households that fall into poverty due to the payment of housing, in addition to deepening and contributing to the existing academic debate on this issue. To this end, statistical databases have been prepared based on the Living Conditions Surveys, which served as a source of information for estimating the following indicators: housing stress, housing induces porverty, maximum accessibility index and accessibility.The questions that guided the research were: ¿Is it possible to talk about house-induced poverty in Ecuadorian households?, ¿What has its evolution been over time?, and ¿What are the characteristics of households that fall into housing-induced poverty?.The research uses Thalmann's Conditions of Affordability (2003), proposed in the peiper 'House poor' or 'simply poor', and the combined index of affordability proposed by Juárez (2015), in the research 'Housing, affordability and poverty'. Two approaches were used to answer the questions: accessibility ratio and residual income, which allow estimating the indicators of: housing stress, housing induce porverty, maximum affordability index and affordability.The results obtained show that: Housing stress, housing induce poverty, maximum affordability index, present evidence that it is possible to talk about of housing induced poverty in the Ecuadorian households. Housing-induced poverty has increased between the years 2006-2014.Housing stress, housing induce poverty, maximum affordability index agree that single-person households that rent an apartment in the urban area fall in a higher percentage into housing induced poverty. Housing stress and housing induces poverty, agree that a household that has a mestizo male as head of household, and classified as an adult household according to the life cycle, falls in a greater percentage into housing induced poverty.Maximum affordability index shows that a household that has a mestizo female as head of household, and classified as an adult household according to the life cycle, falls in a greater percentage into housing induced poverty.