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The consensus in the post-political city. Real estate companies and local governments in the massive construction of housing in the periphery of Mexico City

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No. 45 (2021): December
https://doi.org/10.5354/0717-5051.2021.58520

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Are housing policies designed to maintain social order and not address real housing problems? Starting with a reflection on the concept of post-politics, understood as a negotiation of interests that reaches an agreement that acquires the form of consensus, housing policy in Mexico is analyzed and, in a particular way, the implications at the local level through the agreements for the authorization processes of urban complexes in municipalities of the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico; this is done by taking up international and local documents on the topic, as well as through semi-structured interviews with municipal and state government officials. It is concluded that the post-political consensus is built from two dimensions, on the one hand, through regulations imposed by international organizations and the federal government and the tensions between different levels of government and real estate companies. In this way, the post-politics consensus can be understood from the superposition of discourses and practices at different levels, where the possibility of questioning politics and political projects around housing production is excluded.

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consensus, housing policy, Mexico City, post-political city

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Salinas Arreortua, L. A., & Soto Delgado, L. (2021). The consensus in the post-political city. Real estate companies and local governments in the massive construction of housing in the periphery of Mexico City. Revista De Urbanismo, (45), 108–124. https://doi.org/10.5354/0717-5051.2021.58520
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