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Sudetenland Tales

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allowed the improvement of housing and public services. This was thanks to social programs promoted by the governments of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Marcelo Ebrard, with which the value of land use increased.

These measures allowed the renovation of old residential buildings in the most famous neighborhoods, the creation of new apartments and the arrival of new businesses. The rehabilitation was accompanied by the sanitation of the streets, an increase in transportation networks, improvements in public services, such as public lighting, security, water supply, and garbage collection.

The new face of each capital city, combined with its strategic location, access to green areas and cultural capital, caused an increase in the cost of housing and, in the worst cases, the departure of the original inhabitants due to a lack of resources to cover the increase in prices and thus make way for people with greater financial capacity. In other words, gentrification.

Displacement of tenants due to gentrification

Unlike neighborhoods, known as colonias, such as La Condesa, where the population has always been within the middle class spectrum, in popular neighborhoods, where the profile of its