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Law 12/2023 of 24 May on the right to housing introduced a range of measures, including, most notably, the possibility of declaring "stressed" residential market areas, which, in turn, are the cornerstone of the price limitation framework on residential lease agreements that the abovementioned housing rights law introduced in the Urban Leases Law. On 11 August 2023, the competent housing authorities of the regional government of Catalonia were the first to apply this provision and declare 140 municipalities as "stressed" residential market areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The political narrative in Mexico City has raised the idea of transforming certain traditional public markets into gourmet markets. The city authorities developed policies to support this commercial format without achieving the expected results, granting only insufficient funds to remodel their aging infrastructure. Our aim in this article is to examine the alleged transformation of Mercado de San Angel towards a gourmet market, by confronting the official discourse and information collected in interviews with tenants and customers before, during and after the remodeling process. As part of our conclusions we argue that more than achieving the transformation from traditional to gourmet, we find the participation of the private sector in the emergence of staged gourmet markets, aimed at sectors of the population with high cultural and economic resources, who are willing to pay for products and services framed in a consumption experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo presenta un discurso de Alonso Cárdenas durante la conferencia "Los Códigos en la construcción en Colombia: Aproximaciones y Aplicaciones." Discurre sobre el rol del Ministerio de Vivienda, Ciudad y Territorio de Colombia en las políticas asociadas con la construcción y describe la importancia de la construcción sostenible.

Se presenta un discurso de Carlos Angulo Galvis, presidente de la Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), pronunciado en la inauguración del foro "La vivienda en América Latina: Revisando estrategias" el 13 de octubre de 2011 en Bogotá, Colombia. Angulo Galvis discurre sobre las políticas públicas, la institucionalidad y las estrategias gubernamentales para la construcción de viviendas.