Sheinbaum delivers 474 housing deeds in Quintana Roo, vows legal certainty for workers
Translated from Spanish, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.
At a glance
- President Claudia Sheinbaum distributed 474 property deeds in Quintana Roo, promising legal certainty for workers.
- She criticized past governments for conditioning property rights for political gain.
- Sheinbaum highlighted the "Viviendas para el Bienestar" program, which aims to build 1.8 million homes with minimal requirements.
President Claudia Sheinbaum pledged to provide legal certainty to one million families through the distribution of property deeds, criticizing previous administrations for using this right as a bargaining chip for votes or cash. "Now, no, it is your right to have the deed to your home because it is yours. That is the great difference between the past and the present. We build the rights of the people of Mexico, not privileges or pre-sales. We build rights," she stated.
Now, no, it is your right to have the deed to your home because it is yours. That is the great difference between the past and the present. We build the rights of the people of Mexico, not privileges or pre-sales. We build rights.
During an event for the "Viviendas para el Bienestar" (Housing for Well-being) program and the delivery of deeds to 474 families in Quintana Roo, Sheinbaum emphasized that working people can now be owners and pass down the homes they built with great effort to their children. She thanked former President Andrรฉs Manuel Lรณpez Obrador for initiating the program, stating that her administration is continuing and advancing this transformation of Mexico.
Sheinbaum asserted that past governments served only the wealthiest, while current administrations, including Lรณpez Obrador's and her own, govern "for the people, by the people, and for the people of Mexico." She also noted that debts for five million people with housing funds like Infonavit and Fovissste have been settled or significantly reduced, contrasting this with what she called "very abusive" credits authorized in previous administrations.
He initiated it and we, as in many other issues, continue and advance further in this transformation of the country that we call the fourth transformation of public life in Mexico. This transformation that the people decided peacefully, because there were many years of abandonment of the people, at least 36 years, six presidential terms. Until the people got fed up and said, 'It's time for the people,' Andrรฉs Manuel Lรณpez Obrador came to govern our country and changed history.
The "Viviendas para el Bienestar" program also includes plans to construct 1.8 million homes with minimal requirements. For Quintana Roo specifically, the goal for this administration is to build 57,000 homes, ensuring that children without housing also have opportunities.
The governments of the past were dedicated to a few, the richest, of the rich, of the richest in Mexico, they were the ones who governed for 36 years. And now the difference is that both Lรณpez Obrador and we, are governments of the people by the people and for the people of Mexico.
Originally published by El Universal in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.