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Population growth in relation with demand of new houses

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In the article the magazine Foreign Affairs published  "Mexico’s Urban Future", they explained the huge growth that the country has been facing in the last years and how this change will still growing. Yarza (2016) says that the lack of housing that Mexico is experimenting depends a lot in the people from rural areas that look for a development. As we can see in the Figure 1, Mexico is the second country in Latin America with the biggest population growth and as the author mention, this growth affects the quality of life. "The driving force in the housing demand is the formation of new families and households. The growth of the population is a secondary driver, and it is more related with the use of space and characteristics of the dwellings than the demand for brand new houses." Reference: Yarza, J. (2016).  COMPETITIVE CITIES: The challenges for Urban Development and Special Economic Zones. Foreign Affairs. From: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/co...
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Impacting article

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In this article we can see about tha crisis that is happening in Mexico, and the bad conditions in which a really alarming amount of people live, it is important for our research because this kind of topics are crucial for our studies. Gallegos, Z. (2018). A tight spot for the 34 million Mexicans living in micro-apartments. El Pais. Retrieved from: https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/02/09/inenglish/1518182586_392585.html
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Research question

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We, as a team, decided that the research question is: How the lack of housing affects Mexico? we chose this one because we want to explain the problems for example the impact in the economy and the life style that this represents. At the same time, we want to see how the citizens and the government had have take action and evaluate the organizations and institutions that do something about it.
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