Land Regularization on the Fringes of Mexico City: A Recipe for Reducing Inequalities?

Jean-François Valette & translated by Oliver Waine — 2018-06-08T05:00:00Z

Mexico City's working-class neighbourhoods are the focus of numerous land-regularization operations. Jean-François Valette analyses the impact of these policies and the effects of land titling on already highly fragmented peripheral spaces.
---- Series: Land Rights in the Urban Global South. Regularization and Land-Ownership Policies in Low-Income Neighbourhoods Despite the explosion in the construction of legal “social” housing since the 1990s, the “classic” Mexican model of residential

- From the Field / inequalities, periurban, land, Global South, Latin America, Mexico, land tenure, land rights, land titles, land titling, Mexico City, title deeds, land regularization

Repositioning the state's role through water politics in Mexico City's informal settlements

Guillem Ramírez Chico — 2018-03-27T05:00:00Z

Throughout the Mexico City metropolitan area, the struggle for water access often defines the relationship (or lack thereof) between municipal governments and residents. Guillem Ramirez Chico delineates the distinctive local politics of water provision in three of the area's informal settlements, asserting that poor households are frequently left vulnerable in the name of environmental conservation.
In Mexico City, water is used as a political tool to get political support, through client

- From the Field / local government, water, settlements, state, informality, Mexico, informal housing, water access, water politics, informal settlements, state-free spaces, Mexico City

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Land Regularization on the Fringes of Mexico City: A Recipe for Reducing Inequalities?

Repositioning the state's role through water politics in Mexico City's informal settlements