I'm 34, and I did a very wise decision when I was 20. I did NOT buy one of these bird-cages. The neighborhood where I was going to buy the house looked nice when it was new, it's a nest of drug dealers now. To this day, I don't own a home, I rent. It's the best thing to do in Mexico with the insecurity. If a neighborhood gets bad, I can rent elsewhere, I'm not stuck to one place.
Leonardo, I agree with you. Social conditions in BOTH Mexico and the US are deteriorating, and real estate is in a balloon condition on both coasts of the US. In any case, renting on a short lease (or month-to-month) is a good policy for many folks, especially when folks don't know if they will be employed next year.
If only more people were as smart as you leonardo899, buying a house through Infonavit, they sell you the house pegged at say, una pichonera at 360,000 pesos back in 2006, if you signed on to buy the house on credit for say 12 years you would wind up with a debt of $1'916,000.00 pesos, people just don't realize the house isn't theirs until the credit is paid up in full. Better to rent a home, and although with every thing as expensive as ever, save up to buy a lot or a home with CASH.
leonardo899 I BEEN IN TJ MY ENTIRE LIFE AND I BEEN SO HAPPY ABOUT IT HERE IF YOU LOOK FOR TROUBLE YOU FIND IT BUT IF YOU DON'T NO BODY BOTHERS YOU SO I DON'T KNOW THE TYPE OF PERSON YOU R TO BE AFRAID.
My fiance and his Tia, prima e un Tio bought....criminal, the houses are 8 yrs old and falling apart, we walked away. Prado 2 Ensenada and Encinos...completely derelict now.Gangs, drugs, crime...sad
the poor people left the area because they couldn't afford to continue paying. so bums and drug addicts moved in. those assholes do not represent the poor working class.
I agree with you ,1000000% IF YOU WORK hard you home clean all the time and GROW in poor COUTRY TO, I had 1 dress for week day and 1 for weekend going to CHURCH with my PARENTS AND my dress was so clean an crispy and iron by my mom and so fresh AND my mom wash the floor every Friday on her knee and the house was smell so fresh Like a new flowers 🌹🌺🌻🌼🌹🌺🌻🌼👍👍👍👍👍 THAT was my childhood , and I still keep my home so clean till today 😊💐
I am Mexican American but what is sad is the the majority of people blame the issues on the government but yet if we don’t take pride in our culture and our country “we the people are our the government” we need to take care of each other because the government will never take take care of its people. We need to change the way see the world. If people will stop trasching their own neigherhoods perhaps the world would be a better place. We need to stop taking a shit where we eat..
Amen, these reporters love to place the blame on the area and income inequality but the real problem is the PEOPLE. They are born like that and the culture glorifies murderers, thieves and rapists.
@@DD-nq4re educate yourself Mexican culture does not condone that behaviour. My family in Mexico amongst others do not condone it and in fact they have been victims of that behaviour so get it right. People through laziness and desperation go to extremes to rob or sell drugs but this isn't everyone in the population that preposterous to say. The majorities are victims of this behaviour.
Here's the problem, they need to treat those neighborhoods like they treat retirement settlements for foreigners, they need to hire proper management and security, problem is poor housing for poor people, with no plans to have management or security in an area of even poorer people, it was doomed from the concept.
Indeed, as the poor comunities live in those areas they're easy targets for drug cartels. Violence invades the streets, kid's from usually poor broken families are easy targets for cartels and become new recruits or dealers. It's very sad, I lost many good childhood friends to the streets.
Some do, I rented an airbnb in Cancún and the one I rented was a big community that was fenced in had a pool, no litter.. And they told us they collected dues to finance and maintain it.
I had a cousin that lived in a pichonera for a few years. It was truly horrible. His house was not even a house, it was a room with no ventilation, poor lighting and water which sometimes didn't run. The community he lived in was half abandoned with many squatters and high crime. Many of these communities were meant for the middle class but many weren't sold because many of these homes were small, too identical to tell which house was yours, some were overpriced and they we're far from the city centers or far from any mall, hospital, school, etc. Today, they're still building these homes further away from the city and closer to poor villages, which many villages get destroyed so they can built these money wasted cement boxes.
I spent time in Reynosa, they make the new houses all the same, but eventually people adds on and customizes. Some even has their own little grocery store in the front.
Outbound Shane I live in mcallen, and so many ppl with money from reyno are still moving here cause of all the crazy shit going on in reynosa. Its not as bad as in the previous years but still dangerous non the less
Why are so surprised of it? if that happens in the usa as well go around Cleveland and NYC even worse than having a grocerie store infront of their house! Appartments with bedbugs and all kinds of shit happens in the us, please dont tell me that doesnt exist there neither? lol you arr either blind or very very very naive... But I would go for the first one! lol
Outbound Shane That is one of the main problems in Mexican cities. Zoning Laws are not enforced. So many neighbors turn their homes into barber shops, grocery stores, restaurants etc. so they ruin the look of the neighborhood!
@@gipsytraveler the zoning rules aren't the solution or the problem here, is the lack of building safety codes and the unscrupulous housing companies who wants to make a quick buck.
But these arnt public housing or rent subsidised which makes it confusing as you would need a mortgage to purchase one and undesirables usually don't qualify for bank loans of any kind
D D the only thing that you neglected to say is that you are a trump supporter! You Need to go back to community college. Take genetics 101. Then when you offer your sorry opinion you have the chance to look less foolish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is what I think about whenever I hear someone complain their kitchen isn't big enough!! or those first time house buyer shows...where some ignorant ass is talking about I need a GRAND entry way!!! they need a grand kick in the ass!! be thankful for what you have.
HAHHA! For real huh? I grew up in Flores Magon, a colonia on the west side of TJ. I tell people how I had to use an outhouse most of my childhood life. They look at me like I'm an alien from Venus. I tell people all the time to be happy with what they have in America. But If they keep being miserable I'll show them a RU-vid video where I grew up in hopes of changing their mind.
Grand parents grew up on farms & had no plumbing. They used outhouses, family all pitched in and did all the farm work. Ilegal immigration was hardly a word back than. and yes were all white.
@@eriks8382 i guess a lot of cities have this problem. i know in Oakland there are areas where its super dangerious to walk after sunset! and maybe even during day!
Last Winter I spent three months in tropical central Mexico on the west coast with American and Canadian refugees from the cold Winter. It was completely safe. No problems. La Manzanilla del Mar, Jalisco. We drove from California 1,600 miles into Mexico.
Jack Andblaze totalmente de acuerdo contigo, como Mexicano a veces me averguenzo de mi Raza, todos se creen chingones pero la verdad estamos así por nosotros mismos, ojalá que algún dia dejemos de sentirnos "chingones"
Jack Andblaze, you're right, here in my City, 3 and a half hours north of Mexico City, our municipal government passed an edict that demands we the people must sweep daily the fronts of our homes, and while most of us do sweep, others even wash the sidewalk and gutter down with roma detergent, there are many that say who cares, this applies also to litterbugs, you'd think if there wasn't any public trash can, they could cart that plastic wrapper or cup home and deposit in their home trash. Not happening.
No what they need is the private ownership. If nobody owns the land then no one cares for it. Notice how the lady at the beginning kept her place clean. It’s called private property
Temujin Khan I live in Tijuana, it can be done. It's not like it's a war zone. You definitely need to have your community well take care of and monitored.
Im a US citizen living in Mexico I own a Infonavit home. Its all concrete brick and steel much better quality than US homes which are wood and boards. People just need to take care of their homes. I pay 60 dollars a month and have upgraded the house two stories 4 bed rooms two bath kitchen living room dining room good size backyard and a garage. I have spend about 25 thousand dollars well worth it all my expenses a year are about 6 thousand. There are only 3 homes next to each other. Most of the people given their opinion here have never even been to Mexico.
The quality of building materials can really only be measured against the environment it's in and forces it's subjected to. Concrete brick and steel might be great in some regions, but in regions prone to Earthquakes, concrete houses...even ductile concrete, and bricks tends to crumble or collapse in an Earthquake while wood is flexible.
When they built this "houses" obviously there was no thought process, and when you bought, you trusted the builders, the bank, the system...what scumbags, you don't trick your own people...you build your own people.
Ya, wait until there are 70,000 tiny homes in one place without privacy without green space, and you see how well that turns out. You treat people like animals and they will react in kind.
The problem they are encountering is one of bad urban planning. You dont just dump 2600 houses in an area on the outskirts of town without providing things like, parks, markets, gas stations, schools and shopping centers, medical facilities and close bus routes. If you dont, you end up with what is happening in Tiajuana. When you see it at first you are thinking wow, nice places to live for people of modest means. But when you have to go 1-3 miles for the nearest convenience store, there are no bus routes out that far, and your work location is in central Tiajuana, a city with a population of over 5 million, that nice house out in the country just doesnt cut it. So who takes over? Bad guys.
Single family housing rarely works unless its a wealthy area. You need to build up, around 3-5 stories. And just sell apartments to people and they don't have to be small, something like 1000sq ft. That way you can fit a larger amount of people with less land area. More people means more monthly HOA fees are collected and will pay for upkeep of the neighborhood and keep it looking new. Even afford 24/7 security. Housing as shown in the this neighborhood are terrible for the city, people, and environment.
John Bass organicen grupos comunitarios en la limpieza, vigilancia, colectivas para mantenimiento, levanten firmas, si quieren igualar a las comunidades Norte Americanas.
No es tan sencillo como decir que no tiren la basura en la calle. En estos lugares no hay recolección de basura, lo cual genera los basureros clandestinos.
Obviously, these people never heard of the saying, "treat the place like you live there.". You buy a brand new home and then first thing you do is take the bar-b-que out to the garage and call it a "restaurant"????
40 million people continue to live in poverty in the US. That's more than the entire population of Canada just in the US alone! Go to Cleveland or Detroit or New orleans!! even worse than all this. just saying...educate yourself about your own country first.
@ King Maker . What Abraham " Mr. Educated "doesn't understand is that poverty in America means brand new clothes , high def satellite television , high speed internet , $800 mobile phone , plenty of food and a decent automobile . He just spews ignorant stats without analyzing the facts .
@@jasavak I'm not sure but when I drive down from New York to Florida I pass through the southern states where some houses sorta look deplorable or shall I say really old and they look like some parts are falling off.. Even some gas stations and stores all look run down too. That's not to say that there aren't really lovely looking homes (I bet there are) but I mainly pass through major highways and might deviate off to find food, get gas and maybe to pick up last minute items.
I love how at 3:30 the guy says that the lender's new aim is 'quality of life' as there's a big '13' sprayed in graffiti on the wall behind him. MS13. Hey, LETS BUILD THE WALL!
The people involved in the shootings are always related to some drug cartels. Normal civilians dont get murdered like in the US. Your garbage media just doesnt tell you of all the mass shootings that happen everyday in the US, especially in the ghettos of your cities
This are the step to make it look much better: 1) plant seed for grass, fruit, vegetables etc 2) clean the entire neighborhood 3) (the most important) stop robbing and killing each outer and unite and be very friendly - you know work together. This is easier said the done - especially the third step - but it’s possible.
Tijuana has lots of problems and with these developments. There are usually put in areas where someone within the government we'll make a big profit off of the land. Most of these houses are built of a substandard materials and many of them are connected like apartment buildings where are they share walls with their neighbors. If you go through these developments you will see walls cracking and other types of problems. Many of these developments don't have full-time water which leads the people to store water in 55 gallon drums, which leads to the proliferation of mosquitoes. The municipal planning department in Tijuana is affected by a lot of corruption. F1 drive-through downtown Tijuana or the Rio area, one will see lots of buildings without any thought of where the clients of the businesses or the residence will park their cars. Little by little, Tijuana is strangling itself with motor vehicles and traffic because of the lack of planning or sidestepping the planning process through corruption.
All they need to do is to give title to the abandoned homes to residents still living nearby... the resident will fix it up, maintain it and that will keep the neighbourhood looking good.
They need a home owners association to take over the deserted homes. Everybody kicks in a little to make the neighborhood safe. For example, putting security doors on the empty properties. And group purchases of security systems Also, a volunteer sheriff's department? Or at least, gated streets.
So are these places still abandoned in 2021? TJ is not exactly a cheap place to live in comparison with most of Mexico so any housing at all should be welcomed.
And they still building more and more those bird cages of houses.....they suffer dementia, ...and other thing is despite all this empty cages houses, Tijuana is so crowded, you drive through the streets and is incredible how the traffic is,and people living In Tijuana really.
you see this hoods all over the place. we pass by 2 of em when we go to my sisters house. but the one on the video has some people. the ones we pass are straight up abandoned and they look brand new.
I remember seeing "developments" in Mexico outside of cities called "Granjas" like a shack and small lot used for growing vegetables, but some get abandoned over time, because they are away from the city centers and work, I suspect, and very primitive living conditions. I always wondered what "developers" roped off sections and sold the lots - many places are impacted by the Ejidos (ejito) or indian lands for natives - it's like everyone lives on the land for free and it cannot be sold. This is something different in Mexico where they gave land to the indians or indigenous people - sometimes they rent the land, but it's community land.
We need more of these kind of housing in United States. Our houses are too big, too expensive, and new homes don't need air conditioning. They would easily cost over 50% less in construction.
I bought one of this houses about ten years ago the worst mistake ever I mean the House was supposed to be a private community not it’s full of trash everywhere robberies and loud music dogs barking it’s a third world community and now am stuck with it since no one will buy it haggg!!!!
In San Diego, it's hard to find an abandon home and all the house in San Diego now is half million dollars or more,Tijuana is next to San Diego but it's too different !
Eliminate "Birth-Right Citizenship, and eliminate subsidized (Section 8) Housing to the illegals with "Anchor Babies,and you will free-up, almost 20% of the housing. Prices will fall like a stone!! So will the rents!
We need better urban planners working for the cities, corruption is taking over our cities, so sad, these developers only care about making money not about quality of life😪
Martin Sahagun those two things over lap you know if the people are buying it then the developers think that's what people want. If they didn't buy it developers would know not to build them because they wouldn't sell
Censor all you want. Reality is, these people are defenseless victims, unable to defend themselves with a right to bear Arms, like we law abiding citizens have in the United States. Very sad, you'd censor a comment KPBS.
Martin Tapia East LA is ugly and there are way better areas in Tijuana to live in. I hang out in Tijuana all the time, culturally it is way superior to East LA, there's a tremendous amount of art, music and a great culinary scene. I would choose to live in Tijuana 100x over East LA. There's outdoor art events, huge music events, a growing gourmet food scene (fresh octopus Tostadas and wine, fresh sushi, gourmet burgers, ramen, all for under 10 bucks). Truly incomparable and also laughable to see how people watch one video of a community in a huge city and assume the whole city operates the same.
You are correct, if you have a criminal record you will likely not be able to legally buy a gun. You do not however need to belong to a gun club. I must admit I don't know all the details on this subject but this link offers official info on the subject, www.gob.mx/sedena/acciones-y-programas/comercializacion-de-armas . Check the "Opciones de venta seccion" (Spanish .pdf file, sorry) As I understand you do the paperwork online and pay at a Bank.
Julio Tijuana The point is the government makes it very difficult for Mexican citizens to acquire fire arms. So, it's not legally a ban, but pretty close to it. But criminals have no such challenges.
Easy to fix right? First remove all the dirt and make into really green grass, it’ll make it look more nicer. Remove all the graffiti, hire more police officers or make a police station around the area. Put a whole gate around the area and finally add a huge supermarket, so it’ll make people for safe. It’ll bring in more people around that area come together
It happens on only in Tijuana but in all states. It's a business between government and developers. They get workers money and give them a poor quality house in the middle of nowhere. When the development is new constructors made promises about services and maintain the area safe and nice but once houses are sold out, they and government disappear. Workers then have to pay bank interest and maintain the area. Government don't have any responsibility to provide public services because the majority of development s are private (cotos).
gargoyle gangster or the tiny shoe boxes so called houses for the poor in the US that they build in San francisco! Just saying! 40 million people continue to live in poverty in the US. That's more than the entire population of Canada just in the US alone! Go to Cleveland or Detroit or New orleans!! even worse than all this. just saying...educate yourself about your own country first.
Smaller Homes like this are also built all over the other border town of Mexicalli. There are many vacant ones too and filled with trash,criminals using them to get high and spray grafitti just like in this video. Only difference everyone has 1-3 dogs in their yard and they are fenced up.
The people are saying they don’t feel safe that’s why they are leaving then the dumbass agency still insist in making new improvement. How about you actually listen to the complaints and have a security in the area to make the neighbors feel safer.
The problem is not the suburban model, or the size of the houses, or the location, or "the economy". The problem is the people. Low quality people will always produce slums. That's just their nature. If low-quality people move to an urban environment, you'll get urban slums (e.g., Detroit). If low-quality people move to a suburban environment, then you'll get suburban slums (like in this video). The environment reflects the people who live there.
Over 4-Million People Live within the Tijuana area, which is really hard to believe, but the better areas are secured and protected areas that have the upscale shopping and necessary services, which are truly strained beyond their original design, and will soon collapse...if they do Not spend a lots of resources, and bring in true experts that can make legitimate plans, to expand and prepare for the coming onslaught of new residents...!!! If a patient and smart investor wanted to become a Billionaire, just open Hospitals that take U.S.Medicare insurance, and wait for the 2-Months it takes to receive their monies...!!