Craft, Politics, and the Production of Housing in Oaxaca, Mexico

The production of housing in Oaxaca, Mexico can be linked to another urgent need in the state: water supply, retention and resilience. By explicitly linking water issues to housing, two enormous categories of government investment cross-subsidize each other. Better serviced and higher quality housing, affordable to the residents of Oaxaca, is paired with infrastructural improvements to address seasonal flooding and insufficient water supply.

Oaxaca’s Heritage Mapping Exercise 
Local indigenous heritage and universal world heritage are at once opposing and united in Oaxaca, Mexico… Heritage conservation in Oaxaca thus exists under the title of ‘Biocultural Heritage,’ or a complicated web of national level policy for the preservation of cultural heritage and nature conservation, regional semi-autonomous governance of land resource management and a local craft economy that heavily relies on the tourism sector as much as the regions’ rich biological diversity.