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Translated title of the contribution | Financialization and transnational gentrification: roots of an urban transformation process in Cuenca, Ecuador |
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Original language | Spanish |
Pages (from-to) | 139-161 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Journal | SCRIPTA NOVA |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 30 Jun 2023 |
Publication status | Published - 15 Jul 2023 |
Abstract
The financialization of housing is central to understanding urban development and the processes of transnational gentrification occurring in the Global South. The city of Cuenca offers an emble-matic case, in which transnational investment has induced new processes of urbanization, much of it intended to attract higher-income consumers from the Global North. The transformation of its real estate market from a local one into a transnational one is led partly by Ecuadorian migration to the Global North, but it is also accompanied by North-South lifestyle migration. Both groups have helped to propel real estate construction, especially of new, dense, high-rise condos. The article argues that Ecuador’s attempt to boost its construction sector and expand mortgage credit through securitization of debts has helped to attract transnational pools of migrant wor-kers’ savings to the built environment of its cities—notably Cuenca. Yet the benefits of urban housing investment are not shared by lower-income workers there, who continue to lack access to affordable housing.
Keywords
- Ecuador, Heritage urbanization, housing policy, migration, transnational mobility
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences(all)
- Geography, Planning and Development
Sustainable Development Goals
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In: SCRIPTA NOVA, Vol. 27, No. 2, 15.07.2023, p. 139-161.
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