The Access of Informal Segments of the Population to Land and Housing: The Case of Mexico City
The informal sectors in México City face great troubles in their attempt to become part of it. The high number of inhabitants concentrated in this mega city, unskilled workers, a global economy which does not include them and pushes them to informality and poverty as well as the lack of coordination...
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Revista INVI
2005
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| Online adgang: | https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62171 |
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| Summary: | The informal sectors in México City face great troubles in their attempt to become part of it. The high number of inhabitants concentrated in this mega city, unskilled workers, a global economy which does not include them and pushes them to informality and poverty as well as the lack of coordination between actors, keep the gap and the inaccessibility to land and housing. Land availability and land management are some of the key problems in the urban development of Mexico City. Due to its importance this paper devotes its first part to the main concepts on the topic and then it describes the laws dealing with land market in Mexico from a federal, state and county hall point of view, especially in the area of urban planning, land offer, transactions legal reliability and public services management. The main forms of land ownership in Mexico are also described. The third part shows the case of the Metropolitan area in Mexico Valley. The conclusions mention the main problems of its urban land market and how they lead to a lack of land availability. This in turn affects the efficient provision of housing and the growth of the cities since they do so without any plan and this of course influences the consolidation of human settlements. |
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