When the Cuban actor Pedro Luis Sicard moved to Condesa de la CDMX In the 1990s, renting a house costs about $ 100 a month, a price that multiplies up to 40 years – in this and other neighboring areas in this and other neighboring areas. Gentrification He activated public debates after recent protests.
Sicard told the Epheas that he settled in the Mexican capital in 1995 and was a witness to how the colonies of Condes and Rome switched from the placement of “very cheap” housing – from the 1985 earthquake, which was disputed – to become exceptional areas, one of the requirements associated with a march against Janitriting on July 4, which ended in destruction in various costs.
“It was a house with three bedrooms, on Puebla and Sonora Street, and we paid for a thousand 800 pesos, and then climbed 2 thousand (Peso),” recalls the performer from the soap opera, who later moved to neighboring Northern Rome, where her rental fee was $ 130 per month.
Currently, renting a house with three bedrooms in the region from 1,500 to 4,500 dollars per month, according to a proposal available on real estate platforms, such as Remax and Lamudi.
According to Sicard, in 2000, Rome was still “abandoned”, but “Bohemian” fluid artists began to invest in this area because “the developers said that this was a good place” for the purchase; The trend to which he joined the apartment.
In less than three decades and with the advent of digital nomads due to the pandemia Covid-19, the colony “surrendered”, he said, mentioning that small enterprises “gradually lose” turning into restaurant stores.
Today his house is a risk restaurant and is located in the epicenter Gentrification V CDMX– He is drawn by the message of “Outo Grengo” by the passage of the demonstration, which grouped the requirements of those who are replaced by this growing phenomenon.
“On the day when the colony was very expensive, I am leaving,” the Cuban Mexican admitted.
Quiet demolition
The architect Sal Alcantara agreed with Sicard, because he indicated that housing prices increased to 30 percent after the pandemic, while warning another affecting in the city landscape: the increasingly frequent demolition of the twentieth century buildings, which are part of the historical heritage graphics, Ruma and Huarez.
This is without control in order to change in commercial developments, the researcher at the Autonomous Capital University (UAM) warned.
Alcantara explained that he does not oppose the statements, whenever he is planned, otherwise the owners are ultimately sold at a low price, the neighbors are replaced without support, and the legacy of the city is lost.
“You must plan this so as not to drift. This is the first warning (recent demonstration). The second notification, I think, will be stronger, and the third, because the government will make a certain number of cases, ”the specialist said.
According to the project of the general territorial planning program (PGOT), 20 thousand displacements in the city are recorded every year, the figure, which, according to Alcantara, can be even more out of deregulation in changes in land use, which allows you to transform the land into enterprises or houses without effective control.
On Orizaba Street, one of the most exposed to the restaurant, the chief, the head of David Portillo, emphasized the advantages of relations for sales, although he admitted that the increase in this area made it “impossible for the Middle Mexico”.
“And let’s be honest if Greengo (Americans) leave that the government cannot limit this, people will continue to give prices that are convenient for them, and (…), of course, there will be Mexicans who have purchasing ability to be able to live here.
Thanks to the last mobilization, a business in which Portillo had damage, which exceeded 6 thousand dollars.
With information EFE
