ABSTRACT
Commenting on the extensive literature on housing in nineteenth-century Britain, Englander (1983: xvii) complains that ‘the relation of landlord and tenant has been ignored by most scholars’. That comment is even more apt when applied to the literature on rental housing in less-developed countries. In this chapter, we examine the nature of relations between landlords and tenants in Guadalajara and Puebla. We consider the average length of stay, the processes by which tenants can be evicted, the methods of selection employed by the landlords and the main sources of dispute between owner and occupier. Finally, we discuss the political organisation of landlords and tenants in the two cities.
