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Two photos started the debate among Internet users, where they talked about the issue of gentrification from the transformation of a toaster shop.
Gentrification is a socioeconomic phenomenon where the arrival of foreign residents and large businesses make a given area more expensive.
The side effect is that life is becoming much more expensive for families with average incomes in that area.
Gentrification is an urban phenomenon whose existence causes many collateral effects in the territory; As a result of the photo of a toaster shop and its transformation into a Tierra Garat, a debate began on social networks. What does gentrification really affect in areas of CDMX such as the Naples, the Rome and the Countess?
Let’s remember that this is not the first time that such a sensitive issue has been touched on in CDMX, as some of us remember the video of “Lady Polanco”, where a woman talked about how a bar like “Insurgentes Sur” can devalue the price of the most expensive areas of CDMX. And it is that gentrification responds to the effect in which the middle classes are impoverished and displaced by people from status higher economic. Also, this affects not the centers of urban areas, but the peripheries, this due to the accessibility of public transport. In the same way, it adheres to spaces with architectural and heritage value.
Gentrification is distinguished from tourism when it becomes a problem for the inhabitants of a specific area, as prices begin to increase due to the high demand for capital that foreigners do have. Secondly, xenophobia It is directly a rejection and an irrational hatred towards the foreign, towards otherness. This is not at all equivalent to gentrification, although it is not the opposite either. While it is true that some people, motivated by their hatred, reject foreigners for no reason, it seems that gentrification has other motivations.
For some years, the concern of some historic areas of CDMX has become evident. In the great majority of these colonies, traditional families originally from Mexico lived, however, little by little they have been displaced. This effect occurs in the same way with the traditional positions, for whom it is increasingly difficult to pay the rent of a local. Gentrification could drive up costs not just for real estate, but for food and other basics.
Data provided by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) they estimate that Within Mexico City there are at least 9 million 209 thousand 944 inhabitantswhich makes it difficult to find a good place to work and live in the city.
“This is what gentrification looks like”; replacement of tortería in CDMX of 54 years generates debate
In social networks, the debate on this issue arose, and how much it affects Mexican families, after showing a photo of a business whose belongings had been “taken” from the street a few months ago, without any court order. The tortería then disappeared and, relatively shortly after that, Earth Garat opened a store.
This was the shared discussion:
This is what gentrification and dispossession looks like pic.twitter.com/y7PkYhxiAn
– Omar Mendoza (@omendoza) October 15, 2022
And it is that, although it is not the fault of the chains who decide to expand to offer a better service to their consumersthe truth is that this occupation is beginning to affect small businesses, who have fewer and fewer opportunities to stand out among the chains.
The discussion, in this sense, was positioned largely in favor of a gentrification position, however, there were also those who considered that it is the logical thing for those who “do not regularize”. The opinion, in this case, remains with the Internet user. How much do you really think affects the issue of gentrification?
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