Housing Welfare in Cities. The Case of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca

Adequate, sustainable, and healthy housing is studied in eleven cities of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, with more than 15,000 inhabitants, since their family and collec-tive spaces require attention. Objective: to analyze the well-being of housing in the cities of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Hypothesis: housing provides a high level of well-being, favoring the sustainable development of the cities in the region. Methodology: it com-bines SWOT analysis with quantitative statistical and index network analysis with docu-mentary information. Results: housing is statistically strongly associated with sustainable development, its strengths predominate over its weaknesses in small, medium and large cities, but they show a low level of well-being and the level of sustainable development achieved in the cities is low. Conclusions: there is high vulnerability derived from hous-ing for the population; all the cities of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec require support to strengthen it in all its dimensions.