The effect of housing government subsidies on equitable access to social housing.

In consequence of rapid urbanization, cities through the globe come across a wide range of pressing issues that challenge local government capacity to successfully distribute same resources among a growing population. Providing access to housing for different income groups represents a major stress of cities in both developed and developing countries, nevertheless the approach to tackle land and housing market inefficiencies vary among countries. In mexico, over time an array of diverse solutions and mechanisms to support the low-income population to access affordable housing have been implemented, however perhaps the most popular during the past decade has been the provision of subsidies to reduce the housing consumption costs. In response to the perverse unfair outcomes that previous subsidy programs have encouraged by allowing developers to build social housing projects for the low-income subsidized population in terms of location in the city, in the attempt to encourage developers to supply affordable social housing in better located, serviced areas.