Using a mixed methodology that includes analysis of secondary quantitative data, documentary review and semi-structured interviews, the research explores the causes and effects of the advance of these phenomena in the neighbourhood and the city, identifying how they interact and confront each other to illuminate an increasingly polarised and unequal territory. In this context, the study points to the tendency of Valencia's historic centre to become an exclusive and exclusionary space that limits access to housing and urban resources for large sectors of the local population.
This dynamic, also present in other global cities in southern Europe, highlights the growing difficulties of public policies in harmonising the economic interests of territories with the social well-being of residents, and underscores the need to implement inclusive strategies that promote sustainable urban planning, capable of guaranteeing the right to housing and a place for all its inhabitants.
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This project has received funding from the HORIZON-MSCA-2023-SE-01-01 under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101183165.