Desposesión de vivienda por turistización? Revalorización y desplazamientos en el Centro Histórico de Palma (Mallorca)

Abstract

Due to the current crisis brought on by the bursting of the real estate bubble, the Spanish population is rapidly undergoing a process of home dispossession. The eviction of tenants and mortgage foreclosures create a very unsettling social urban environment. But, at the same time, these conflicts generate opportunities for accumulating structures through new financial engineering. This paper raises a discussion about the role that home dispossession is playing through evictions in the process of revaluation and urban touristization, starting from the hypothesis that its correlation becomes necessary in the process of accumulation by home dispossession. The study is landed in the Historic Center of Palma, analyzing its process of tourisyization and its geography of evictions and revaluation from the years of real estate boom to the present. It is concluded that touristization as an element of creation of urban rents expectations, therefore, potentiating the rent gap and as an element of creation of urban rent expectations, thus enhancing the rent gap and, as a consequence of the real estate revaluation, represents a fundamental factor in the generation of direct displacements. Keywords: Home dispossession, eviction, urban rent, touristization, Palma.