In 1992, the Urban Action Plan of El Vado showed the neighborhood had achieved strong urban consolidation but without any real infrastructural improvements or expansion of community facilities. In fact, the neighborhood had developed into a well-known site for alcohol consumption, drug addiction and insecurity, forcing many neighbors—or at least those who could afford it—to leave their homes in search of “better” places to live.
The recent acquisition of emptied properties by new investors looking to develop luxury apartments or hotels is directly affecting the neighborhood and its local population—particularly artisans whose daily livelihood depends on their businesses.
This creates a new pressure on the neighborhood's long term population, many people already struggle with a toxic environment generated by car traffic, but now they also have to face gentrification due to rising real estate costs around them (though not on their street specifically), changing urban logics and bringing different people to the neighborhood, many of them less excited about their crafts and more interested in producing the perfect social media photograph of their shops (as they have explained) without much in return for local artists.
In 1992, the Urban Action Plan of El Vado showed the neighborhood had achieved strong urban consolidation but without any real infrastructural improvements or expansion of community facilities. In fact, the neighborhood had developed into a well-known site for alcohol consumption, drug addiction and insecurity, forcing many neighbors—or at least those who could afford it—to leave their homes in search of “better” places to live.
The recent acquisition of emptied properties by new investors looking to develop luxury apartments or hotels is directly affecting the neighborhood and its local population—particularly artisans whose daily livelihood depends on their businesses.
This creates a new pressure on the neighborhood's long term population, many people already struggle with a toxic environment generated by car traffic, but now they also have to face gentrification due to rising real estate costs around them (though not on their street specifically), changing urban logics and bringing different people to the neighborhood, many of them less excited about their crafts and more interested in producing the perfect social media photograph of their shops (as they have explained) without much in return for local artists.