ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the methodology and results of a three-year evaluation process examining the impact of housing policies on the real estate market in central Mexico City. These policies were carried out after two devastating earthquakes in September 1985 had killed approximately 4,500 people and had destroyed 412 buildings and damaged a further 5,725. These events left 54,352 people homeless (damnificados), whom the government was obliged to rehouse.
