Rentals: more than a million people in CABA are tenants

Rentals: more than a million people in CABA are tenants

December 2, 2024 – 11:21

Young people who live in single-person homes and rent are mostly concentrated in the northern part of the city

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The City of Buenos Aires It has 517,768 homes tenants which represent a total of 1,077,111 people. This means that 36.8% of households and 34.8% of people rent.

According to the report Tenant Geography in the City of Buenos Aires, prepared by the Tejido Urbano Foundation, based on data from the 2022 National Census, there is a core tenant concentrated in communes 1, 2, 3, 5 and 14, which house almost 40% of the homes tenants of the City with a proportion that exceeds the average (34.8%). Communes 4 and 13 complement this concentration.

The report highlights that the extensions of the subway network carried out in the first decade of the 2000s show, in this census, their impact on urban development oriented towards the rent.

The podium is occupied by the radios of the communes 14,15, 6, 4 and 8. In Palermo, they are concentrated in the areas near the Puente Pacífico and Plaza Güemes, where, despite the high presence of single-person households, the population density is maintained thanks to the level of construction that is usually intended for the middle and wealthy strata. This same pattern can be seen in sectors such as Primera Junta (Caballito), the intersection of Juan B Justo and San Martín (Paternal), and other areas of Almagro and Villa Urquiza.

In communes 4 and 8, the phenomenon manifests itself in areas of popular habitat, in its three variants: Barrio 20 (popular neighborhood), the housing complex of Lugano I and II, and the tenements of La Boca.

Single-person households are the majority in the northern area of ​​CABA

Towards the north of the City the size of the average household tends to be single-person households while towards the south the size increases considerably, with the majority being families.

Regarding the distribution of homes tenants With unsatisfied basic needs, it is observed that the popular neighborhoods and Constitución take on greater prominence, since households were identified that began to rent in areas with greater urban degradation that were previously or were not on the market. These are the cases of Flores, Almagro and a strip bordered by Villa Ortúzar, Belgrano, Coghlan and Colegiales that is different from the former AU3 route.

Where young people and seniors rent

There are 218,240 young people who rent and they mostly do so on the main avenues of the neighborhoods of Palermo, Recoleta, Nuñez, Villa Urquiza, Villa Crespo, Almagro and Caballito.

A no less important fact is that this group represents 20% of the tenants of the City and almost 41% within homes with less than 2 inhabitants.

While older adults are particularly located around the Rivadavia corridor and have three clusters outside the corridor: the south of Almagro, Monte Castro and Constitución.

These represent 6.4% of households tenants and at least 10% of these households have unmet basic needs


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