Abstract:Este artículo aborda la mercantilización de la vivienda en La Habana desde 2011 en adelante. Sustenta que las teorías de la gentrificación y del rent-gap pueden iluminar aspectos de la transformación de la capital cubana, aunque esas teorías fueron pensadas en contextos urbanos capitalistas y que la determinación del valor y la propiedad del suelo le corresponden en Cuba al Estado socialista. El análisis de los anuncios digitales de venta en cuatro plataformas entre 2012 y 2020 permite evaluar el precio y la u… Show more
“…In 2018, I started a research project titled ( Re)investing Havana about transnational circulations and market making (Jolivet 2018; Jolivet et al . 2021; Jolivet & Alba‐Carmichael 2021). During the project, after mapping the spatial dynamics of the emergent market, I collected 70 interviews 2 with Cuban and foreign property owners in central neighbourhoods of Havana (Habana Vieja, Miramar, and Plaza).…”
Section: Studying the “Highest And Best Use” From Elsewhere In Cubamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nevertheless, Havana's gentrification process is still in its infancy and sporadic as several authors have highlighted the impossibility for a large majority of Cubans to participate in the real estate market even if they are property owners (Mesa‐Lago 2018; Garcia Pleyán 2020; Jolivet et al . 2021). This significant social segmentation of the market also places Havana in a special position within discussions about gentrification in the Global South and especially in Latin America (López‐Morales et al .…”
Section: In Between Global South and Global East: How Gentrification ...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The reintroduction of a real‐estate market in Cuba and, more specifically, in Havana, which accounts for approximately 80 per cent of the island's real‐estate transactions (Jolivet et al . 2021), is declared in 2011 with the decree Law 288 giving the right to Cubans and permanent residents to buy and sell their houses. In a country where 88 per cent of the population owns property and real‐estate speculation was abolished in the early hours of the socialist revolution, the reintroduction of an exchange value to housing is a considerable transformation that testifies to the broader economic and social changes taking place on the socialist island (Brenner et al .…”
This article addresses the two processes of market making and transnationalization in Havana through the lens of gentrification theory. Using a case study situated between Global South and East, this article looks more closely at transnational families and migrants as agents of gentrification in Havana, analysing how they create and exploit the rent‐gap. Returning to the central ideas of ‘highest and best use’ and ‘circulations’ in N. Smith's rent‐gap theory, I analyse how increased transnational mobility has affected the commodification and potential use of housing in Havana. Based on interviews with transnational owners who purchased housing to upgrade and convert into an Airbnb, this article shows how the “highest and best use” of a property is evaluated from elsewhere. It also demonstrates the complexities of transnational gentrification in a southern socialist city and insists on the need to understand more broadly the gentrification–migration nexus.
“…In 2018, I started a research project titled ( Re)investing Havana about transnational circulations and market making (Jolivet 2018; Jolivet et al . 2021; Jolivet & Alba‐Carmichael 2021). During the project, after mapping the spatial dynamics of the emergent market, I collected 70 interviews 2 with Cuban and foreign property owners in central neighbourhoods of Havana (Habana Vieja, Miramar, and Plaza).…”
Section: Studying the “Highest And Best Use” From Elsewhere In Cubamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nevertheless, Havana's gentrification process is still in its infancy and sporadic as several authors have highlighted the impossibility for a large majority of Cubans to participate in the real estate market even if they are property owners (Mesa‐Lago 2018; Garcia Pleyán 2020; Jolivet et al . 2021). This significant social segmentation of the market also places Havana in a special position within discussions about gentrification in the Global South and especially in Latin America (López‐Morales et al .…”
Section: In Between Global South and Global East: How Gentrification ...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The reintroduction of a real‐estate market in Cuba and, more specifically, in Havana, which accounts for approximately 80 per cent of the island's real‐estate transactions (Jolivet et al . 2021), is declared in 2011 with the decree Law 288 giving the right to Cubans and permanent residents to buy and sell their houses. In a country where 88 per cent of the population owns property and real‐estate speculation was abolished in the early hours of the socialist revolution, the reintroduction of an exchange value to housing is a considerable transformation that testifies to the broader economic and social changes taking place on the socialist island (Brenner et al .…”
This article addresses the two processes of market making and transnationalization in Havana through the lens of gentrification theory. Using a case study situated between Global South and East, this article looks more closely at transnational families and migrants as agents of gentrification in Havana, analysing how they create and exploit the rent‐gap. Returning to the central ideas of ‘highest and best use’ and ‘circulations’ in N. Smith's rent‐gap theory, I analyse how increased transnational mobility has affected the commodification and potential use of housing in Havana. Based on interviews with transnational owners who purchased housing to upgrade and convert into an Airbnb, this article shows how the “highest and best use” of a property is evaluated from elsewhere. It also demonstrates the complexities of transnational gentrification in a southern socialist city and insists on the need to understand more broadly the gentrification–migration nexus.
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