Fernando Camacho Servin
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, January 25, 2025, p. 8
The united Housing and Labor commissions of the Chamber of Deputies yesterday approved, with changes, the opinion on the minutes sent to them by the Senate to reform the Infonavit Law, among whose main points is the use of 2.4 billion pesos from the subaccounts housing for workers for a fund through which housing spaces of social interest will be built.
The amendment was approved by 46 votes in favor of Morena and its allies, as well as the Citizen Movement – which on this occasion joined the initiative – and 10 against the PAN and the PRI.
After being endorsed in committees, the opinion was sent to the Board of Directors of San Lázaro to continue its legislative process. The reservations to the document, it was indicated, will be analyzed by the plenary session.
Morenoist Alejandro Peña highlighted that the reform will allow people who earn between one and two minimum wages to have access to decent housing that is built in central areas, and not in areas without transportation, water or other basic services, as occurred in previous governments.
For her part, Maiella Gómez Maldonado (Morena), president of the Labor Commission, detailed some of the main changes that were made in the Chamber to the minutes that the Senate sent her last December, and considered ridiculous
think that 2.4 billion pesos of workers’ housing subaccounts can be used for purposes other than the construction of housing spaces, since this work will be supervised by the Superior Audit of the Federation, the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, in addition of the National Banking and Securities Commission.
In the opposite direction, PRI member Laura Ivonne Ruíz expressed her deep concern
for the creation of a subsidiary company without controls or audits, which opens the door to misuse of resources. We are talking about 2.4 billion pesos. What guarantee is there that this money will be used responsibly?
For her part, Lorena García from Acción Nacional agreed that creating a subsidiary company of Infonavit that builds homes with employees’ money is a risky decision, since the government has not been a good builder
as demonstrated – in his opinion – by the cases of the Dos Bocas refinery, the Felipe Ángeles International Airport and the Maya Train.
The PAN legislator added that there is little confidence for the current director
of the housing institute, Octavio Romero Oropeza, whose background as head of Petróleos Mexicanos They leave us much to be desired, with an accumulated loss of one trillion 300 billion pesos and a debt of 400 billion pesos for payments to suppliers
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