Andrea Becerril and Georgina Saldierna
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, November 1, 2024, p. 8
Yesterday, the Senate of the Republic unanimously approved the reform to Article 123 of the Constitution, which guarantees the right of workers to access decent housing under accessible financial conditions.
For this purpose, the possibility of building residential houses, part of them for rent, is returned to Infonavit. without the law of the market, profit or utility prevailing
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It is the sixth constitutional reform that was approved unanimously, with 106 votes in favor and zero against, and was sent to the state congresses to continue with the legislative process.
The president of the Constitutional Points Commission, Oscar Cantón Zetina, expressed before the Senate plenary session his satisfaction with the consensus of all the political forces regarding that minute that the Chamber of Deputies sent them, in which The conditions are facilitated for there to be an aggressive housing, construction, repair and social leasing program, which has as its axis, of course, Infonavit, the National Housing Commission (Conavi) but other participations are also encouraged, for example. of course, from the private sector
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In the second transitional article of this reform, Congress is given a period of six months to create the secondary laws that establish the new constitutional orders, but Senator Cantón Zetina said that there is a commitment to harmonize in this regulation the doubts that the opposition expressed. in committee meetings.
The Morena senator and teacher leader, Alfonso Cepeda Salas, highlighted that it is a reform that will benefit approximately 55 million workers in Mexico and their families. by strengthening the capacities of the State to guarantee the right to adequate housing
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In turn, the president of the Legislative Studies Commission, Enrique Inzunza, added that this modification to Article 123 of the Constitution will allow workers to access cheap and sufficient credit to acquire or improve homes, or in cases permitted by law, acquire land and build a home.
They may also opt for social rental housing, whose monthly payment may not exceed 30 percent of their salary, as well as the right to own them. In any case, preference will be given to working people who have continuously contributed to the fund, and do not have their own home.
For his part, the president of the Urban Reorganization and Housing Commission, Luis Armando Melgar, commented that this reform proposed by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador will allow one of the programs announced by President Claudia Sheinbaum to land, that of building in six years a million dwelling houses.
Half a million will correspond to Infonavit, he said, and the remaining 50 percent to Conavi.
