New housing markets and affordability gaps in Mexico City

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ID19217417
AuthorsJosé Gasca Zamora (0000-0002-2295-3107, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Francisco Javier Luna Moreno (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
Year2026
Volume36
Issue1
Publication date2026-03-04
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBitácora Urbano Territorial (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0124-7913 • E-ISSN: 2027-145X
PublisherUniversidad Nacional de Colombia (PUBLISHER • CO)
DOI10.15446/bitacora.v36n1.123155
OpenAlexW7140045686
LanguageEN
References cited11

The purpose of this study is to analyze the evolution of new housing markets in Mexico City and its metropolitan area between 2000 and 2024 and how market segmentation in this sector reinforced affordability gaps. Affordability gaps are understood as the distance between household income capacity and actual home purchase prices. Residential segmentation was determined based on submarkets classified by size and price and their spatial distribution in the metropolis, while affordability was measured as the relationship between housing prices and family income. The results show the consolidation of a spatially segmented and differentiated supply of new housing, which generated price structures that acted as differentiated demand mechanisms. This spatial pattern reinforced inequalities in access in the metropolis, deepening the gap between those who managed to acquire higher-quality housing in urban environments with better living conditions and those who were displaced to the peripheries where, although prices were relatively lower, there were significant deficits in public facilities and services

Consolidation (business) · Distribution (mathematics) · Income distribution · Inequality · Market segmentation · Metropolitan area · Mexico city · Supply and demand · Housing Market and Economics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Latin American Urban Studies

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