Domestic Territories

Ten-Bel highlights a problem characteristic of post-tourism: the housing units within tourist resorts can become permanent homes, but the large-scale infrastructure that once came with them is left obsolete, without adequate funding, maintenance or management models for a residential territory.

The disappearance of neighbourhood shops is not merely an economic transformation, but a process of reconfiguring the everyday infrastructures that sustain dwelling. Analysing the daily routes of different resident profiles will make it possible to identify how gentrification alters access to resources, networks of care and the continued presence of communities in the neighbourhood.

EntreAlisios shows that collaborative housing based on a right-of-use model can be understood not only as an alternative route to accessing housing, but as a collective process of producing and managing dwelling. Analysing the spatial, organisational, economic and institutional conditions that make it possible will help identify transferable lessons for advancing cooperative housing models in the Canary Islands.

The conversion of housing and territory into commodities is transforming neighbourhoods such as Guanarteme from places to live in into places to invest in and consume. Analysing how processes of touristification and gentrification alter its uses and make it harder for the resident population to stay can guide measures to protect the residential function and everyday life of the neighbourhood.

La conversión de la vivienda y del territorio en commodities transforma barrios como Guanarteme de un espacio para habitar en un espacio para invertir y consumir. Analizar cómo los procesos de turistificación y gentrificación alteran sus usos y dificultan la permanencia de la población residente puede orientar medidas para proteger la función residencial y la vida cotidiana del barrio.

The loss of single-storey houses in El Toscal is not due solely to their age or deterioration, but to processes of abandonment, fragmented ownership, property hoarding and a lack of public intervention. Identifying who owns them and what their legal status is would make it possible to select buildings that can be recovered, and to develop a public policy of acquisition, renovation and allocation as affordable housing, preserving the residential and heritage housing stock and helping long-established residents remain in the neighbourhood.

Self-build with institutional support shows that access to housing can be conceived as a collective process of producing habitat, in which collaboration between citizens and public authorities generates not only homes, but also capacities, rootedness and community. Its disappearance reflects a shift towards a housing model increasingly subordinated to market logics.

In a context of housing emergency, many large-scale infrastructures remain empty or underused for long periods of time. When these are informally inhabited, the conflict tends to be framed in terms of squatting or eviction, while the trajectories of abandonment, vacancy and management that made this situation possible remain almost entirely invisible.