{"id":1808,"date":"2017-08-17T00:15:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T00:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2020-08-11T14:22:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T14:22:35","slug":"paper-staying_a_step_ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/paper-staying_a_step_ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper\u2014Staying a Step Ahead: Institutional Flexibility in the Rehabilitation of Social Housing in Oaxaca"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-field-author field-type-field-collection field-label-inline clearfix\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">The Mexican National Workers\u2019 Housing Fund Institute, or Infonavit, is the most important actor in the nation\u2019s housing market. As of 2015, it was the leader in mortgage origination, accounting for roughly 74 percent of all housing loans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">The institute was founded in 1972 with the mission of fulfilling the right to housing provided to workers as established in the Mexican Constitution, primarily through the provision of credit for the purchase of formal housing. Today, roughly one out of every four Mexicans lives in a home financed or built by Infonavit.&nbsp;Success for the institution has traditionally been measured regarding the number of houses built: the more, the better. Through the first decade of the new millennium, Infonavit experienced tremendous growth in the number of loans originated. This expansion coincided with a transition from Infonavit\u2019s historical role as an organization that designed and constructed the housing they financed, to one reliant on private developers for the production of housing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This paper was written by Davi Schoen while he was a graduate student at Harvard\u2019s Graduate School of Design (GSD). Diane E. Davis, Professor of Regional Development and Urbanism in GSD\u2019s Department of Urban Planning and Design was the Principal Investigator for this project, which was carried out with funding provided by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies via its Student Research Support Program and by Fundaci\u00f3n Hogares.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jchs.harvard.edu\/sites\/jchs.harvard.edu\/files\/harvard_jchs_schoen_staying_step_ahead_august_2017.pdf\">Follow this link<\/a> to read the full paper published by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/event-staying-a-step-ahead\/\">read more about the discussion panel<\/a> that took place on&nbsp;November 9th, 2016 at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Paulina Campos&nbsp;(CEO,&nbsp;Fundaci\u00f3n Hogares),&nbsp;Surella Seg\u00fa&nbsp;(Former Head of Office for Urban Development at Infonavit), and&nbsp;Emiliano Garc\u00eda&nbsp;(Principal Designer,&nbsp;Taller de Operaciones Ambientales) joined&nbsp;Diane Davis and&nbsp;Davi Schoen&nbsp;in a conversation of the strategies deployed to address the problems of housing abandonment in Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Mexican National Workers\u2019 Housing Fund Institute, or Infonavit, is the most important actor in the nation\u2019s housing market. As of 2015, it was the leader in mortgage origination, accounting for roughly 74 percent of all housing loans. The institute was founded in 1972 with the mission of fulfilling the right to housing provided to workers as established in the Mexican Constitution, primarily through the provision of credit for the purchase of formal housing. 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