Brugada pushes to census residents of informal housing to fight property theft

Mexico City's head of government, Clara Brugada, is initiating a significant program to address property dispossession by identifying and regularizing residents living in housing units without official deeds.

Brugada has instructed the Secretary of Housing, Inti Muñoz, to conduct an immediate census of social interest housing units across the city whose inhabitants lack property titles. This diagnostic step is crucial for launching a regularization initiative designed to protect residents from losing their homes.

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To combat dispossession, we will first implement a major regularization program in Mexico City, and we will start with with housing units. So, I am asking the Secretary of Housing, so that we can immediately have the census, the diagnosis of how many social interest housing units we have in the city, whose inhabitants do not have deeds.

"To combat dispossession, we will first implement a major regularization program in Mexico City, and we will start with housing units," Brugada stated. She emphasized that the subsequent program will be "very accessible, without bureaucratic procedures," aiming for a swift regularization of these homes.

The initiative comes as the city grapples with issues of illegal property seizure. Brugada noted that while her administration is reviewing the matter within the Peacebuilding Cabinet, recent reports to the Attorney General's Office (FGJ-CDMX) show a low number of actual dispossession complaints, with many cases being family disputes over property. The government plans to establish a Legal Defense Office to guide residents on property rights issues.

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very accessible, without bureaucratic procedures