Mexico City has been plagued by evictions involving irregular hours, separated families, property theft by unidentified persons who act in concert with police and civic officials, and violence.
Gentrification proceeds through every day developments, causing prices ito skyrocket, and what was once a territory of urban resistance becomes a tourist showcase and, ultimately, a territory of expulsion.
Representative Mariana Casillas seeks to curb real estate speculation and the impact of gentrification in Jalisco, using tax revenues to fund social housing and public programs.
While a proposed reform to end the plague of excessive Airbnb rentals remains stalled in Mexico City, in other areas related to social housing, advances are being made.
Built mainly during the Fox and Calderón administrations, they were built for private profit with public money, and didn’t meet the needs of workers: with no services, nowhere near urban centers.