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Sudetenland Tales
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inhabitants is working class and laborer, the processes of gentrification are more visible.
An example is Doctores, a neighbor of Roma, where old neighborhoods are bought by real estate developers who transform them into housing complexes aimed at another profile of inhabitants.
"In the Doctores colony it is very clear, especially for the working class population with a high school education. We already have real estate developments of 50 square meter apartments for 2.5 and a half million pesos," said González Lloyde, who wonders about the fate of the original inhabitants who left to make way for the new profile of neighbor, who is looking for a space and has the purchasing power to stay.
The professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico also pointed out that the displacement of inhabitants can also be the result of other factors such as a better job offer, so one cannot speak of gentrification in these cases. "Maybe they had access to a housing loan but, due to their income, they were assigned to the outskirts, and what they cause are phenomena that we see every day of people who go to the city center and vice versa, who spend three or four hours of their day on public transport," says González.