Abstract

ROMANO, Bárbara Teresa. Pro-business urbanism and unoccupied housing in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area. The case of the city of Lomas de Zamora. Bol. estud. geogr. [online]. 2021, n.115, pp.9-32.  Epub June 14, 2023. ISSN 2525-1813.  http://dx.doi.org/48162/rev.40.001.

The process of economic recovery that was experienced after the economic, social and political crisis of 2001 in Argentina, represented an opportunity, fundamentally, for the construction and real estate business sector. The investments of the real estate developers, protected by the same local governments, concentrated not only in the traditional neighborhoods of the Ciudad Autónoma of Buenos Aires, but also in áreas little explored by the pro-business urbanism: the head towns of the partidos of Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA). One of them is Lomas de Zamora, which is located in the southern corridor of the agglomerate, and has undergone a recent verticalization process that has contributed to the expansion of houses discovered. In this presentation, we propose to analyze the quantity and distribution of houses discovered, through the information present in the last three national censuses (INDEC, 1991 - 2001-2010), as opposed to population growth residential that seems stagnant; with an approach that tries to interpret the characteristics that are behind the phenomenon (or real estate strategy?) of vacant houses.

Keywords : unoccupied housing; rental; housing financing; Lomas de Zamora.

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