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The future scenario is worst if we take in account that this studio only reflects the quality of housing
of people in precarious situations, for the reason that in the future the problem of lack of housing
won’t be just of people in dangerous situation like their ages, their physical situation or something
like that.
In the future it will apply for almost people, because of the increasing sea levels, the deforestation,
the poor quality of air, and many other factors will produce that a big amount of people has to
migrate, and consequently, there will be an unstoppable lack of housing and an overcrowding of
living spaces that will produce as the problem in fact, more social, economic, and environmental
problems; including loss of jobs, fight for the water, mental problems, health problems, increase
in violence, hygienic problems, lack of food, etc.
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How Mexico will be affected by the lack of housing and the overcrowding of the living
spaces?
Mexico will be affected in an incredibly big way because of the massive migration by the south
America countries trying to reach Mexico or the United States of America to look for a better place
to live, the government of Mexico will have to affront what to do with all these migrants, because
if they doesn’t come back to their countries, Mexico will have a big problem of overcrowding, not
only in the big cities like CDMX, Guadalajara, Queretaro or Monterrey, this will affect the whole
country, there will be a lot of people looking for any place to stay and live.
But, why the south America countries will have massive migrations?
Although Mexico is like some countries of the south, people of countries like Brazil, Colombia,
Peru, Venezuela, etc., will have to move because of the deforestation, mainly of the Amazonas,
that will have therefore the lack of food, and a decrease in the air quality.
Besides, the government of these countries are not as stable as the other’s one, and it can cause
problems like the ones that are happening in Venezuela right now, that has made that Venezuela’s
people wants to move away of the country to try to have a better quality of life.
All these reasons are going to have direct and indirect consequences in Mexico, but not only the
countries of the south will have migrations, it can also happen with the united states of America,
mainly because of the poor quality of the air, the bad government, the lack of services, and the
environmental consequences of an excessive use of fossil fuels instead of use green energies,
these factors will make that a considerable part of the population wants to move to another
country, in this case, Mexico or Canada.
Obviously, this will make that the native people, the Mexican people will have a lack of food, an
increasing population that will ends in an overcrowding of the living spaces like it’s happening in
the Mexico City, that is the most overcrowded city in Mexico and one of the most crowded cities
in the world.
In addition, this will cause that the government of Mexico had to take some severe decisions, that
couldn’t be the best, because they will have to decide whether accept the migrants or reject them,
and if the government accept them, it’s a fact that the housing buildings aren’t going to be enough,
and if there are enough, these buildings won’t have the appropriate characteristics for a good
quality of life. But this only would work in the beginning, owing to the excessive amount of
population, Mexico’s government will fail, and the foreign people will enter in the country, it doesn’t
matter if the government is in agree or not with that.
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Even knowing that the overcrowding is a fact and that it is going to happen whether we do
something to try to avoid it or not, not everything is loss. This research was made with the purpose
of find some solutions or alternatives to try to solve the problem with some innovative ways.
Not all is loss.
1. Keep residents where they are.
It’s a big mistake to see slims as a problem, when in fact they are an opportunity. And it is an
even bigger mistake to locate people away from their current settlements to new government
projects. Slums typically crop up around centers of economic opportunity, however
rudimentary. And slum dwellers by their very nature understand how to mobilize community
resources and generate opportunity.
The location of affordable housing is “as important as, or even more important than, the quality
of this housing”. When residents are displaced or relocated, they are disconnected from critical
social and economic networks and livelihood option they themselves created.
Making in situ improvements to these settlements allows slum dwellers to remain connected
to their own networks and sites of economic opportunity.
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3. Shift from
ownership to
rental housing.
For the very poor,
and those who lack
the documentation
to qualify for
mortgages,
homeownership is
simply not an option.
Particularly in the
global south, the
current emphasis on
homeownership
creates additional
burdens for women
and members of
minority groups in
many rapidly urbanizing parts of the world. This is because their rights are inextricably bound
to male family members, marital status, or are otherwise restricted by cultural norms. Even in
countries where property legislation is gender neutral, law enforcement often restricts
women’s ability exercise their rights to purchase housing.
So, any development strategy cannot work without a policy that supports local affordable
rentals rather than just homeownership.
Ultimately, the hundreds of millions of the urban poor who live in global slums are the key to
resolving the global housing and urban crisis. They know their communities and are doing the
best they can to mobilize resources and create opportunity.
And giving them access to resources and connective fiber is the best thing we can do to help
unlock the urban engine of economic progress. As John F.C. Turner argued long ago, it is
time we shift from seeing “housing as a noun” something that governments build for people
to “housing as a verb,” something people and communities build for themselves.
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In Denver, The Mile High city has become a national reference point in
conversations about affordable housing because local leaders aren’t just
proposing solutions, they’re investing significant money to meet aggressive
targets. In early 2016, Denver launched a $10 million Revolving Affordable
Housing Loan Fund to help widen the capital pool for affordable housing projects.
The initiative has had so much success bringing new projects online that the
city expanded support for affordable housing last fall, approving plans to preserve
or build thousands of units. A new $500,000 property tax increase, paired with new
development impact fees, will raise $156.4 million over the next decade. Other
cities, such as Pittsburgh, have also created affordable housing funds, but few
have been put to use as quickly as Denver’s.
And Denver is already looking ahead. The FasTracks program seeks to build future
affordable housing near stops on the city’s new light-rail line, a great example of
what Siglin calls holistic development.
In addition, Mayor Michael Hancock announced a pilot “buy-down” program that
would turn vacant high-end apartments into affordable units. By tapping into the
newly created housing fund, the flexible program can cover the difference between
market rate and affordable rent and quickly add more attainable units to the city’s
housing supply.
“This is a city putting up real dollars to create affordable housing,” says Ethan
Handelman, vice president of policy and advocacy for the National Housing
Conference. “We don’t always think of smaller cities when affordability comes up,
but they do have a serious rental problem.”
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While it was more expensive to build than other housing developments, its developers say
it was a pioneering development that will pay off over time, as lessons learned here can
be applied to future apartments.
"The Rose can't be a one-off," says Gina Ciganik, a former Aeon executive who helped
kickstart the development and is now working with the Healthy Building Network to help
share lessons from the project. "If other people don't learn from it, we failed."
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The building breaks the mold in many ways. Its connection to a transit hub, landscaped
terraces, and green roof help support a sustainable lifestyle. It’s also a center for healthy
living, thanks to the integration of numerous healthcare facilities within the building. Home
to a health clinic run by the Public Health Management Corporation, a pharmacy, and
supportive services provided by Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha (Association of
Puerto Ricans on the March), an iconic community group and partner in the project, Paseo
Verde offers a huge benefit to the neighborhood.
Other recent projects have seen similar success connecting residents with much-needed
community services. In San Francisco’s Mercy House, for example, two family daycare
centers support working parents while also providing a source of employment for
residents. In Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood, developments by the nonprofit
Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) include an in-house community resource
center for job and skills training. And in Atlanta, the East Lake community was rebuilt
around the Charles R. Drew Charter School system, connecting local children to some of
the district’s best education.
7. Energy-efficient buildings
To use resources more frugally as the world becomes crowded, we’ll need buildings that
move air and regulate their temperatures passively and that reuse waste water and even
generate their own power. Those improvements don’t need to be expensive, either.
Building with compressed-earth blocks and other temperature-regulating materials is low-
cost and it will make a difference.
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Our governments should restrict foreign ownership of land, or limit it to those who live and
pay taxes in Mexico.
We must also work far more actively to close the tax havens since tax-avoiding housing
“investments” push up prices.
We should require any company buying property in Mexico to list the real owners in a
public register of beneficial ownership. We should punish financial professionals who help
Mexicans evade taxes. We should close the loopholes and dodgy practices that enable
tax-evaders to buy and flip property. We should enable local municipalities to impose a
hefty annual surcharge on properties owned by offshore entities.
How you as a student or your family can help solve or reduce this impact?
Due to the type of impact the overcrowding living spaces is, it is not easy to try to reduce by myself
or with my family.
The only things that we can do is to reduce our use of the different natural and artificial resources,
to try to avoid the fast decrease in the amount of these resources.
Besides, we can try to make awareness the people around us about the adequate use of these
resources to reduce our impact as a society and with this delay a few more time the fact of the
unavoidable problem.
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Economical sustainability.
This focusses on economic growth, that generates wealth for all, without harming the
environment.
This includes the investment and an equal distribution of the economic resources to strength the
other pillars of sustainability.
How this is applied in the computational science area?
The systems engineering has a key role in the sustainable development because this will work
and even nowadays is working as a provider of the knowledge principles and practices that help
realize the integration of economic, technological, natural resource, and environmental efficiency
and effectiveness, and support equity in fulfillment of human needs as well/
Sustainable world progress is dependent upon continued economic, social, cultural and
technological progress.
Often system engineers build relatively inexpensive models of proposed projects to refine and
test new ideas. Such prototypes can save much time and money by allowing experimentation to
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avoid mistakes that, in the “real” system, could be very expensive and possibly even dangerous.
System failures may be expensive to diagnose and correct, though they are often not difficult to
detect. Because systems engineers know how to analyze and understand complicated situations,
they are often called on to organize knowledge for executive decision-makers. In this role, they
perform systems analyses to develop and evaluate policies and programs and typically function
as consultants or as technical direction and staff support to management. Thus, in developing
and implementing large-scale systems, systems engineers must also understand and appreciate
human, organizational, and behavioral concerns, as well as concerns involving technology.
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a. Guarantee the right to potable water, clean air, food security, uncontaminated
soil, shelter, and safe sanitation, allocating the national and international
resources required.
b. Empower every human being with the education and resources to secure a
sustainable livelihood and provide social security and safety nets for those who
are unable to support themselves.
c. Recognize the ignored, protect the vulnerable, serve those who suffer, and
enable them to develop their capacities and to pursuit their inspirations.
Ensure that economic activities and institutions at all levels promote human development in an
equitable and sustainable manner.
Imagine you are a world leader, a prime minister, a president, write 10 recommendations
for your country or choose a country in the world.
1. Implement the use of green energies instead of fossil fuels.
This will allow the country to save costs and to reduce the impacts of climate change, trying
with it to delay the lack of housing. This can help to avoid the lack of housing because if the
resources aren’t used as much as in the normal way, there wouldn’t be so necessary to
migrate for the people with poor resources (economic and natural). The migration many times
occur owing to the lack of basic services, like water, food, and even electricity, people are
always looking for better life conditions. So, implement the use of green energies means more
clean energy, saving resources means the delaying of the depletion of these resources, than
therefore makes possible a better-quality life.
2. Reduce the excessive use of the soil for agricultural and business purposes.
An incredibly big extension of the soil is being used in an excessive measure, this is
depleting the extension of soil available for buildings, but obviously, the construction of
these buildings is also depleting the soil.
3. Make the culture of a green agriculture, avoid at all the use of agrochemical products.
6. Divide the land extensions destined for building worthy houses in equal parts.
7. Not allow the monopolies and forbid private enterprises to use excessively the soil and its
resources, they will have only the necessary space to their infrastructure, and they will
have to respect the flora and fauna of the place where they are stablished.
8. Invest in research to look for better and innovative ways to make houses, condos, and
apartment houses.
9. Modify the current buildings to adapt to the overpopulation, try to host more people,
without losing the worthy.
10. Make a law to put a limit in the number of sons per couple, to stop the exponential
increasing of the population around the country.
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The solutions are very useful, and it can help to reduce the impacts of the lack of housing,
unfortunately, it is not very easy to make it fast.
The solutions mentioned in this document must be implemented as soon as possible to see the
results, to be able to see the difference in the quality life of people.
And, it is well known that the solutions can hurt the interests of many people, but this is in order
to avoid the big impacts of overcrowding, that in the end will finish with the human way to live like
we now nowadays.
If nothing is done, the consequences will be incredibly severe, so we must make a change in our
way to think and act to reduce the possibilities of affront an apocalyptical age, with many problems
and no solutions.
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