Jared Laureles
The newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, August 8, 2024, p. 15
Trade union and private sector representatives, as well as developers, presented a series of proposals to contribute to the goal of building one million homes, as proposed by the housing policy of the virtual president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum.
During the national housing meeting, Pillar of Economic Prosperity in Mexico, convened by the sectoral leadership of Infonavit workers, its director, Mario Macías Robles, pointed out that the institute has the capacity to generate legal and administrative conditions to finance 100 thousand housing actions annually with a price of less than 580 thousand pesos.
This would be in addition to the 435,000 ordinary annual shares, which would mean an economic impact of 300 billion pesos annually and the creation of more than 2 million direct jobs.
He explained that the employees of the National Workers’ Housing Fund Institute (Infonavit) are planning to increase purchasing power and make financing schemes more flexible, including leasing options.
In addition, a strategy to reduce housing costs through direct acquisition of land.
He also proposed a national agreement with the aim of defining fiscal and administrative incentives, reaching preferential prices, tariffs and inputs that contribute to lowering the final price of housing.
Macías Robles pointed out that although Infonavit has 77 million members, equivalent to accumulated savings of 1.98 billion pesos, there is currently no housing for the lowest-income workers, who are 5.5 million who earn less than 12,600 pesos per month.
During his participation, Luis Alberto Moreno Gómez Monroy, president of the National Chamber of Industry and Promotion of Housing (Canadevi), assured that this body has the capacity to invest 810 billion pesos in the construction of another million new homes, thus doubling the goal proposed for the next six-year term.
We believe that the plan of the [virtual] President-elect of a million homes, if we agree, we can generate another million homes, which in a six-year term we can have at a rate of about 2 million homes
he commented.
He mentioned that, according to an analysis by Canadevi, the possibility of land rights was identified, and acknowledged that there is a lack of water and energy.
