El mercado de vivienda informal en arriendo para la población venezolana asentada en Bogotá

Abstract

Home ownership is a symbolic and material guarantee of social mobility for Latin American households, to the point that other housing tenure modalities such as renting are relegated from the market and public policies. For countries such as Colombia, the rental housing segment represents the housing solution for half of the population, a condition that has been strengthened in the last five years with the massive immigration of Venezuelans to the country's main urban centers. In Bogota, the high demand for rental housing in informal neighborhoods has stimulated the price of rents to rise, favoring landlords and, indirectly, the low-income housing market.

This article seeks to expose the difficulties experienced by Venezuelan immigrant families in their search for rental housing in the city's informal neighborhoods where the cost of living may be more affordable, but they must face the lack of price regulation, as well as segregation and discrimination based on their country of origin, experiencing not only violence and discrimination by State institutions, but also the stigmatization of the inhabitants of equally segregated neighborhoods.