Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Mexican housing must become denser, better planned – study

MEXICO CITY, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Mexican housing must become denser and better planned to provide adequate living options to lower-income parts of the population, according to a new study, which said the country's current residential construction was largely unregulated.

"The real problem is providing housing to the bottom 20% or 30%," said Albert Saiz from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

According to Saiz, the prevalence of self-built, one-family homes is a bigger problem than growing numbers of "digital nomads" - remote workers living in Mexico but earning disproportionately large salaries from . . .

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