She is the economic support of her family made up of her 17-year-old son, who studies high school at home, as well as her 85-year-old mother, who requires an oxygen tank to be able to breathe, as she suffers from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ( COPD).
Unable to reach an agreement with her landlord, without money for the move, much less to rent another space, because for almost two years she has lived day to day, María Amparo sought some support from the Government of Mexico City for people in her situation. .
“I, who am responsible for this family, am very afraid of not knowing where to go, it is difficult and stressful not knowing where you are going to stay because you have no recourse to go to another home.
“We feel sad, unprotected, unprotected because we don’t know where we are going to end up and we have made a life here,” says María.
She approached the Office for Latin America of the Habitat International Coalition (HIC-AL), who have supported her to defend herself before the civil eviction lawsuit against her.
The organization has gone further, by obtaining an injunction that instructs the head of government, Claudia Sheinbaum, and the Secretariat of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (Sedatu) to serve people who, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, have not been able to continue paying rent for your home.
