First Units in CDMX Affordable Social Housing Program Will be Ready in 2026

ByDana Estrada

This article by Dana Estrada originally appeared in the November 8, 2025 edition of El Sol de México.

Inti Muñoz Santini, Mexico City’s housing secretary, reported that the first affordable rental homes will be ready by 2026. This announcement was made during his appearance before the city’s Congress this Saturday.

Muñoz Santini stated that the demolition of the parking lot located at 105 Doctor Lavista Street, in the Doctores neighborhood, has been completed, and he expects the more than 100 apartments, which will be designated for low-cost rentals for young people under 35, to be ready by next year.

However, this project began in September 2024, and the then-mayor, Martí Batres, assured that the project would be ready in 2025.

“It is a plot of land measuring five thousand square meters; the demolition processes have been completed. This building will be finished in 2026,” the Secretary of Housing stated in his speech.

Inti Muñoz Santini, Secretary of Housing for Mexico City

Inti Muñoz said that by the end of the six-year term, in 2030, there will be 20,000 homes available for the affordable rental program. However, the guidelines on how to access the program will be published when the first housing complex in the Doctores neighborhood is ready.

These homes are in addition to the goal of 80,000 new homes built during the Secretary of Housing’s six-year term, through the government of the Head of Government of Mexico City, Clara Brugada.

The official assured that of the nine billion pesos allocated to the department in 2025, there will be no underspending and all the allocated resources will be used.

“The year will end with pressure and spending of the nine billion pesos,” Inti Muñoz Santini said. He reiterated that of the 200,000 housing actions planned for the city, 2025 will end with 30,000 completed, meaning barely 15 percent of the objectives have been met.

He also reported that in this first year they have filed 20 criminal complaints against housing scams by people outside the Housing Secretariat, who through social networks, offer INVI [Mexico City social housing] properties where they must give down payments of tens of thousands of pesos.

Inti Muñoz confirmed that these legal actions have already resulted in the arrest of five people. However, he reiterated that no social housing is offered on social media, much less are deposits requested to external banks.