Mexico City plans to tackle gentrification after protests against mass tourism
Mexico City plans to tackle gentrification after protests against mass tourism
I grew up in rural america in a tourist town. We hated the tourists. Wealthy. Arrogant. Rude. Unaware of local customs. Drove up rent and grocery prices.
But, at the end of the day, we were the only town within an hour radius that wasn't crumbling. All those vacation homes paid property taxes and the school system was great. There were jobs for people.
There are a lot of issues with unregulated tourism and immigration. But it's better to regulate the issues and keep up with fostering good job markets and building government controlled affordable housing instead of try and ban a chunk of your economy. Which, from this limited article, it seems like the government is trying to do.
There’s video of people spray painting things like ’kill a gringo’.
fucking based. reminds me of the rent-lowering gunshots meme
My MIL and FIL were just down there visiting family and told me that they've built what are essentially giant walled off communities full of houses and businesses that are essentially their own independent cities where people never need to leave and security doesn't allow any unauthorized individuals inside.
I saw similar things when visiting a resort outside of Playa Del Carmen when we'd hired a local cab driver in Playa to take us around for the day and drop us off at the resort. Security checked us all for our passes but chilled out a little once they saw me (a gringo) in the taxi van with everyone else.
As a gringo, nice. I hope their housing prices go down.
Tourism isn’t the problem 😂 more dumb people unable to find the root cause.
if they're gonna act like colonizers, people have every right to be mad at individual tourists. no more of this "no ethical consumption under capitalism" bs
The people in power allow the rich to become richer on the backs of the poor.
“I’m not the problem!” Says the rich man, “it’s those immigrants, whose money I’m taking, who are the problem. Fight amongst yourselves”
good argument (/s)
if you want to provide an actual argument, better provide the whole argument, instead of basically just saying "you're wrong lol"
what causes it instead?
Yawn. Someone is profiting on tourism. Use your brain and follow the money ffs.
Looks like overtourism is becoming an issue everywhere in the world. Yet another instance of the tragedy of the commons.
But a deeper underlying issue is the idea of real estate as investment. If you treat housing as an investment, of course renting to tourists is more profitable, therefore more of it will be dedicated to tourism.
Private equity needs to be reigned in all over the globe