ABSTRACT
The bulk of the primary research material was collected between August 1985 and September 1986 with short follow-up visits being made in 1987 and 1989. The information in this book comes from a range of sources. First, we reviewed both the Mexican and the general literature on rental housing, making a deliberate attempt to try to integrate some of the findings of first and third world research. Second, we read the main newspapers in Guadalajara and Puebla and the principal weekly and monthly magazines in Mexico City for the period since 1975. Third, we interviewed government officials, property managers, leaders of tenant associations, academics and other people familiar with the housing scene in the two cities. We also talked to the major housing and planning institutions in Mexico City and to numerous academics in the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM), the National Autonomous University (UNAM) and the Colegio de México. Finally, we carried out a major survey of owners and tenants in Guadalajara and Puebla as well as a small survey of landlords.
