MEXICO CITY.- The impulse of the mass production of social housing under property of the State and given in lease to citizens can help stop the gentrification in the country, according to the professor of the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM, Efftychia Danai Bournaozou Marcou.
He also suggested to encourage cooperatives between groups that would not be individual owners of a property, but collective with greater defense capacity against real estate.
Both models are part of a scheme that has worked with great success in Uruguay, said the academic, according to a statement.
The proposal was presented at a seminar on residential mobility and gentrification, organized by the Social Research Institute.
The urban planning teacher said that gentrification is the result of public investments followed by private ones that raise land prices, the cost of living in places that are traditionally inhabited by the popular sector, but that they have a development potential due to their privileged location.
He added that the infrastructure is improved, but the real estate sector that invests in new projects, increases prices and the effect is the displacement quickly or gradually.
You may be interested:
The lack of 5 million housing is one of the causes of Gentrification in the CDMX
According to Bournaozou Marcou, gentrification is characterized by the subordination of the State to the needs of the market: “An example is the flexibility of the legal framework.”
For the researcher of the Social Research Institute, Vicente Moctezuma Mendoza, the dejection of Gentrification would need to overcome the objective of capturing more profits and implementing an ethical dimension from the State.
“There are no urban regulations and programs that protect the characteristics of the neighborhoods, which allow the social life to be reproduced in them, without being threatened by market dynamics. The State should put people in the center and not the economic aspect,” he said.
The seminar is part of a series of academic dialogues driven by UNAM to reflect on the effects of gentrification in Mexican cities, and on the urgent need to build viable and equitable proposals for housing policy.
Follow business information and today in Forbes Mexico
