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Today, growing anger in Mexico over soaring rent prices.

An influx of mostly American, so-called digital nomads, have moved here to work remotely

and also enjoy a cheaper cost of living.

Protesters say the newcomers have driven up rents beyond the reach of locals.

Tell Mexico City's gentrification fight mirrors a global crisis.

I'm Manuel Rapalo, and this is the take.

My name is Adriana Sevedo.

I'm an urban planner based in Mexico City who focuses on housing policy, and I believe people shouldn't spend their

life commuting to work.

Adrian, welcome to the take. Let's start with what's happening right now in Mexico City.

The Mexican Capitol saw protests against gentrification on July 4th, again on Sunday, July 20th, what were these protests

like?

I think people are really upset that the housing in Mexico City has become really unaffordable,

that people are being pushed out from the central

areas of the city to live year by year further away from the few nice neighborhoods that the city

can offer, especially young people, I would argue. If you see the rate of young people who live

with their parents in Mexico, and that's about 50% of that population.

So, yeah, there's been some protest arguing that the city should become more affordable

and blaming Airbnb and foreigners for driving the price of housing up.

Some of the images that I've seen of these protests, specifically earlier in July, I believe

these were out near Parque Mexico, which is in one of the more posh neighborhoods of Mexico

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