Gestión del espacio habitacional en la periferia: Conjuntos urbanos, el caso de Zinacantepec, Estado de México

Abstract

The intensive production of social housing units promoted by the real estate sector in recent decades in Mexico has commonly turned the spaces where they are built into residential areas for many families living in the country’s metropolises. These units, generally produced in peripheral areas, once municipalized, are found to have numerous problems related to their residential quality, primarily due to the insufficient provision of services, as well as the precariousness and deterioration of common spaces. This article seeks to investigate how the space of the urban estates (conjuntos urbanos, the term used to denominate them in the legislation of the State of Mexico) is managed in the metropolitan municipalities where they have been produced. The work incorporates the analysis of a case, in the municipality of Zinacantepec, State of Mexico, and the scope of its local authorities, and that of the neighborhood organization, for the maintenance and administration of this residential space.