Alejandra Reyes
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3780178 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alejandra Reyes |
| NOMBRES | Alejandra |
| APELLIDO | Reyes |
| FIRMA | REYES A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9845-5000 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Organizing and Shelter Decommodification
Critical urban scholarship is bringing attention to issues of accumulation and their role in hindering housing access globally. By reviewing relevant literature, we advance our understanding of the potential of grassroots organizing for influencing housing policy and outcomes. Beyond promoting housing decommodification, we underscore the broader sociopolitical significance and transformative potential of mobilizing around the housing question, wh…
Contention and change in Southern California
Mexico's mass housing
This paper discusses an array of irregular and informal practices related to the construction and inhabitation of mass housing built throughout Mexico. In speculative and financialized land and housing markets, builders expedited development to minimize costs and maximize profits, bypassing government legislation and codes even if often condoned by the state. In the face of the resulting structural and infrastructural deficiencies, as well as lim…
Contesting housing commodification and financialization through bridging
The appropriation of the housing sector by global finance has transformed housing policies worldwide while leading to new opportunities for capital accumulation. Financialized models have also become increasingly prevalent in the Global South, promoting mortgage and household debt and stark housing commodification impacting lower-middle-income communities and residents. Yet, despite adversity, housing social movements have worked to challenge som…
Housing as a battlefield
Since October 2023, we have witnessed the human and material devastation brought about by the horrific mediatised genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, itself preceded by a long history of ‘urbacide’—an intentional form of urban destruction characterised by siege and denied rehabilitation (Chiodelli 2022). In his research on modern warfare and ‘domicide’ in Syria (2022), Amar Azzouz has spoken eloquently about ‘...the millions of or…
Appealing for Local Control and Spatial Inequality
Several limitations have thwarted the implementation of California housing law for over fifty years. This paper sheds light on the evolution of municipal-state relations at a period of reform by analyzing the contentious implementation of state housing law in Orange County, California, a region of concentrated affluence. Systemic privilege has historically allowed some jurisdictions to influence decision-making at higher levels, skewing housing p…
Lived realities versus state rationalities
The contributions in this issue of the Radical Housing Journal evidence the historical and contemporary evolution of struggles against structural pressures impacting housing and everyday precarity, as well as mobilizing efforts based on particular local, gained or ancestral knowledge. We outline four main themes emerging in the articles featured in this issue, all situated both within and against the lived realities of housing injustices. We hope…
Recent evolution of housing finance policy and development agendas in Mexico
Political and economic reforms to open and liberalize Mexico’s economy drove federal administrations to promote mortgage expansion and mass housing production at an unprecedented pace since around the turn of the millennium. This allowed a select group of housing development companies to grow considerably through the construction and sale of homes for lower-middle income households. The country’s housing finance and development model was eventual…
Roadblocks to teaching as a foreign, junior, Latina professor
The Distinctive Evolution of Housing Financialization in Brazil and Mexico
After defaulting on their foreign-debt obligations in the 1980s, several Latin American countries had to restructure their economies to boost market-led growth. Some of the ensuing housing reforms promoted mortgage expansion and mass housing production. Mexico was among the first countries to follow this logic, and in a particularly aggressive manner. Credit liberalization allowed a handful of real estate firms to experience massive expansions in…
Intensification of, and responses to, housing struggles in Brazil under the Covid-19 pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has severely impacted historically vulnerable populations in Brazil such as the unhoused and those living in tenements and quilombolas, and in particular black, brown and indigenous peoples. This has intensified issues of unemployment, indebtedness, precarious work and hunger among Brazilians who already faced various forms of violence. Yet important efforts have emerged to confront these conditions, such as the Zero Evictio…
Mexico’s Housing Paradox
The main aim of this article is to analyze the participation of different government levels and institutions in promoting the financialization of housing in Mexico. Furthermore, it examines some of the implications of following this logic, particularly at the local and household levels, such as surmounting mortgage debt, the clustering of vacant and abandoned housing, and, ultimately, the reproduction of poor housing conditions. Since the late 19…
Looking Back to Look Forward
Followed by two previous conferences 20 and 40 years earlier, the Habitat III conference convened in Quito in 2016 to tackle global urban challenges. With cities experiencing ever-increasing levels of poverty, inequality, and vulnerability to climate change, Habitat’s New Urban Agenda outlines its priorities for sustainable urban development considering current urban realities. This paper aims to assess the changing dynamics that have paved the r…
Demystifying Academic Writing in the Doctoral Program
This article discusses a course at The University of Texas at Austinwhich sought to facilitate doctoral students’ development of scholarly articles while simultaneously fostering their sense of scholarly identity. The article was co-authored by the instructor and two cohorts of doctoral students based on immediate as well as retrospective learning outcome assessments. The social constructivist approach to writing pedagogy fostered students’ schol…
Housing access and governance
Obras de NIetzsche traducidas al español
The Distinctive Evolution of Housing Financialization in Brazil and Mexico
After defaulting on their foreign-debt obligations in the 1980s, several Latin American countries had to restructure their economies to boost market-led growth. Some of the ensuing housing reforms promoted mortgage expansion and mass housing production. Mexico was among the first countries to follow this logic, and in a particularly aggressive manner. Credit liberalization allowed a handful of real estate firms to experience massive expansions in…
Housing access and governance
Mexico's mass housing
This paper discusses an array of irregular and informal practices related to the construction and inhabitation of mass housing built throughout Mexico. In speculative and financialized land and housing markets, builders expedited development to minimize costs and maximize profits, bypassing government legislation and codes even if often condoned by the state. In the face of the resulting structural and infrastructural deficiencies, as well as lim…
Obras de NIetzsche traducidas al español
Housing access and governance
Mexico’s Housing Paradox
The main aim of this article is to analyze the participation of different government levels and institutions in promoting the financialization of housing in Mexico. Furthermore, it examines some of the implications of following this logic, particularly at the local and household levels, such as surmounting mortgage debt, the clustering of vacant and abandoned housing, and, ultimately, the reproduction of poor housing conditions. Since the late 19…
Looking Back to Look Forward
Followed by two previous conferences 20 and 40 years earlier, the Habitat III conference convened in Quito in 2016 to tackle global urban challenges. With cities experiencing ever-increasing levels of poverty, inequality, and vulnerability to climate change, Habitat’s New Urban Agenda outlines its priorities for sustainable urban development considering current urban realities. This paper aims to assess the changing dynamics that have paved the r…
Demystifying Academic Writing in the Doctoral Program
This article discusses a course at The University of Texas at Austinwhich sought to facilitate doctoral students’ development of scholarly articles while simultaneously fostering their sense of scholarly identity. The article was co-authored by the instructor and two cohorts of doctoral students based on immediate as well as retrospective learning outcome assessments. The social constructivist approach to writing pedagogy fostered students’ schol…
Intensification of, and responses to, housing struggles in Brazil under the Covid-19 pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has severely impacted historically vulnerable populations in Brazil such as the unhoused and those living in tenements and quilombolas, and in particular black, brown and indigenous peoples. This has intensified issues of unemployment, indebtedness, precarious work and hunger among Brazilians who already faced various forms of violence. Yet important efforts have emerged to confront these conditions, such as the Zero Evictio…
Lived realities versus state rationalities
The contributions in this issue of the Radical Housing Journal evidence the historical and contemporary evolution of struggles against structural pressures impacting housing and everyday precarity, as well as mobilizing efforts based on particular local, gained or ancestral knowledge. We outline four main themes emerging in the articles featured in this issue, all situated both within and against the lived realities of housing injustices. We hope…
Recent evolution of housing finance policy and development agendas in Mexico
Political and economic reforms to open and liberalize Mexico’s economy drove federal administrations to promote mortgage expansion and mass housing production at an unprecedented pace since around the turn of the millennium. This allowed a select group of housing development companies to grow considerably through the construction and sale of homes for lower-middle income households. The country’s housing finance and development model was eventual…
Roadblocks to teaching as a foreign, junior, Latina professor
The Distinctive Evolution of Housing Financialization in Brazil and Mexico
After defaulting on their foreign-debt obligations in the 1980s, several Latin American countries had to restructure their economies to boost market-led growth. Some of the ensuing housing reforms promoted mortgage expansion and mass housing production. Mexico was among the first countries to follow this logic, and in a particularly aggressive manner. Credit liberalization allowed a handful of real estate firms to experience massive expansions in…
Housing as a battlefield
Since October 2023, we have witnessed the human and material devastation brought about by the horrific mediatised genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, itself preceded by a long history of ‘urbacide’—an intentional form of urban destruction characterised by siege and denied rehabilitation (Chiodelli 2022). In his research on modern warfare and ‘domicide’ in Syria (2022), Amar Azzouz has spoken eloquently about ‘...the millions of or…
Appealing for Local Control and Spatial Inequality
Several limitations have thwarted the implementation of California housing law for over fifty years. This paper sheds light on the evolution of municipal-state relations at a period of reform by analyzing the contentious implementation of state housing law in Orange County, California, a region of concentrated affluence. Systemic privilege has historically allowed some jurisdictions to influence decision-making at higher levels, skewing housing p…
Contention and change in Southern California
Mexico's mass housing
This paper discusses an array of irregular and informal practices related to the construction and inhabitation of mass housing built throughout Mexico. In speculative and financialized land and housing markets, builders expedited development to minimize costs and maximize profits, bypassing government legislation and codes even if often condoned by the state. In the face of the resulting structural and infrastructural deficiencies, as well as lim…
Contesting housing commodification and financialization through bridging
The appropriation of the housing sector by global finance has transformed housing policies worldwide while leading to new opportunities for capital accumulation. Financialized models have also become increasingly prevalent in the Global South, promoting mortgage and household debt and stark housing commodification impacting lower-middle-income communities and residents. Yet, despite adversity, housing social movements have worked to challenge som…
Organizing and Shelter Decommodification
Critical urban scholarship is bringing attention to issues of accumulation and their role in hindering housing access globally. By reviewing relevant literature, we advance our understanding of the potential of grassroots organizing for influencing housing policy and outcomes. Beyond promoting housing decommodification, we underscore the broader sociopolitical significance and transformative potential of mobilizing around the housing question, wh…
Political science (12 obras) · Economics (9 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (6 obras) · Urban Planning and Governance (6 obras) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 obras) · Economic growth (4 obras) · Finance (4 obras) · Financialization (4 obras) · Geography (4 obras)