Lack housing in Mexico (team 33)

We have the duty to discuss the topic of lack of housing in Mexico and look for possible solutions to this issue. Today the difficulties of having access to a living place are increasing for developing countries. The ease of access to a living place is crucial since having a house is vital for any living being. The problem comes when many people do not have that facility, and is when the health troubles start and quality of life is seen in a dilemma. “The social interest housing in Mexico originated in the dwelling for the worker, issued at the beginning of the last century by obligation patrones” (Elvira Schwans, 2014).

 As students of the Universidad de las Americas Puebla, decided to talk about this topic because the Team 33 is c by students of different programs, Industrial Engineering, Civil Engineering, Actuary and Chemestry Enginereeng. So we consider this problem a subject where each of us can apply their knowledge and get the conclusion as a team.

When we talk about lack of housing we are inferring two things one is that there are not enough houses or places to live in Mexico and the other thing is that the government makes more difficult for the citizens to obtain a house. As Mokkonen (2016) presents because of some survey’s analysis, “the average age of household heads with full title is 54 years as compared to 48 years for those without. Those with a full deed have a 13% higher level of education.” With this, Monokken is saying that the opportunities to obtain the title of your own house has a relation with the age that the citizen has and the level of education. The ugly truth about this situation is that the education in Mexico in known to be low graded so the government makes the process even harder and sometimes even impossible.

Mexico unfortunately has a severe shortage of homeless, as Edson said (2014) that affects more than half of the 127.5 million of habitants that Mexico has. Citizens are forced to walk long distances on foot, searching for a place to stay at night, such as parks, streets and risky places Money is of course part of the problem. It is calculated that about 2,000 million dollars would be needed to ensure supply of houses for the population of the country; the authorities say that this investment is completely out of reach.

“We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem we just can’t solve” (Linda Lingle, 2010).

Since 2010 a 6.7 million of people live in extreme poverty and most of that poor people are indigenous, according to the UN's Human development, also they are not only in the small towns fairway form the big cities we see this people in the streets asking for money.  “Indigenous peoples have the right, without discrimination to the improvement of their economic and social conditions, including, inter alia, in the areas of education, employment, vocational training and retraining, housing, sanitation, health and social security” (1).

We choose to talk about the lack of fit housing in Mexico, because we have seen that is a big problem in our country cause mainly because of poverty, so in this article analyzes poverty so it’s basic to our research. “Economic Crisis, Poverty and Social Policy in Mexico” This article has a lot of information, and the main topic is poverty.

The article will mainly “Situate Mexico’s economic crisis and its social effects in national and regional context” The article explains the many consequences of poverty, and the bad quality life that Mexicans have in general, one of the main basic needs a person has is a fit house, but many Mexicans sadly don’t.

As a basic need, and as the National situation of so many people without this, is for us a important problem to think about and do something.

Reference

Elvira S. (2014).The Mexican experience in the social Housing Sector and programs for green housing. Architectural Engineering Technology. Vol 3, pp 1-7.

(1) UNDP: The Human Development Report on Indigenous Peoples in Mexico: The Challenge of Inequality of Opportunity 2010. New York: United Nations Development Programme; 2010:121.

Edson Servan Mori, Pilar Torres-Pereda, Emanuel Orozco and Sandra G Sosa-Rubí. (2014,). An explanatory analysis of economic and health inequality changes among Mexican indigenous people, 2000-2010. international journal for equity in health, 1, 7.

Monkkonen, P. (2016).  Where do Property Rights Matter More? Explaining the Variation in Demand for Property Titles across Cities in Mexico. Elsevier. Vol. 88, pp. 67–78.

Medina, A. (2014). Recommendations to Make the Affordable Housing Sector in Mexico More Efficient in Order to Increase the Welfare and Quality of Life of Mexicans  .Real Estate Development. pp. 1-81