The lawyer said that the group held dialogue tables with the Government, which was “receptive”, but without making a definitive decision which keeps them in a state of “legal limbo.”
Although the norm is not yet applied, the hosts fear that, once the platform will be enabled, the measure enters into force and leaves many of them, in the face of the proximity of the World Cup, which represents an expectation of high demand for accommodation in 2026.
“It is not fair that they are only using us to be able to cover this event and, ending this commitment, because now your right to work 100%already restricts you,” he said.
A discriminatory measure
Héctor Rivera said that in the face of the paralysis of the restrictions on lodging nights, the collective is all hosts presented more than 400 amparos before the District Courts in administrative matters, in which in the majority the federal authority granted a provisional suspension to the limitation of 50% on lodging nights, while the amparo trial is resolved.
He added that recently, the twenty -first collegiate court in administrative matters granted an amparo to a host, stating that the reform that limits 50% is illegal for being discriminatory.
“It is an easy way out, to turn digital platforms into the expiato goat of problems such as the absence of effective housing public policies and urban planning that has been exceeded for decades,” he said.
The lawyer Héctor Rivera Muñoz argued that the measure is illegal and discriminatory, because the restriction applies only to the hosts that use electronic platforms to offer the service, while hotels and guest houses, which offer the same service, have no limiting and can operate 100% of the nights.
“These types of restrictions have been implemented in cities such as London or New York and have not had and have not had the expected effect by governments, instead of reducing prices for rent, housing have increased,” he said in an interview for Political expansion.
What the hosts seek is that the 50% measure is completely eliminated, since many of the affiliates to all are hosts, they are families whose only support and family income is the rent of rooms or complete real estate.
“The Legal Limbo”
In 2024, the former Government Chief, Martí Batres, sent to the Congress of Mexico City reforms to the Tourism Law that contemplate a 50% restriction at the nights that a host of lodging platforms can offer per year.
The proposals, which were approved by majority of the deputies, contemplated the creation of a host register and a Digital registration of the nights of occupation, so that the government could account for the 182 spaces to which they were entitled.
However, one year after the entry into force of the Tourism Law, the Government of Mexico City has not published the mechanisms contemplated, which leaves this sector in a legal limbo and uncertainty.
After the marches against gentrification since July 2025, the head of government, Clara Brugada launched the Bando 1 to address the housing crisis and the excessive increase in income prices.
The 50% restriction on the nights of lodging for digital platforms and the creation of a host register, whose proposal will be sent to the capital Congress was also put again on the table.
According to the Government of Mexico City, no later than in November 2025, a package of reforms and initiatives referring to Bando 1, including the creation of a register of lodging platforms, restrictions at the nights offered by the hosts, as well as laws on housing, the Ombudsman’s Office, among other measures, among other measures, for its discussion in the current ordinary period of sessions.
