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The Take: How the gentrification crisis is hitting Mexico City

The Take: How the gentrification crisis is hitting Mexico City

Al Jazeera22-07-2025
Mexico City has seen an influx of foreign renters, including those calling themselves digital nomads. This has led to increasing housing prices, displacement of residents, changes to the city's culture – and growing protests. How is Mexico City's fight mirroring a global crisis of gentrification?
In this episode:
Adrián Acevedo Mansour (@acevedomansour), Mexico City urban planner
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Marcos Bartolomé, Duha Mosaad, and Chloe K Li, with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Kisaa Zehra, Marya Khan, Melanie Marich and our guest host, Manuel Rápalo. It was edited by Kylene Kiang.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take's executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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