Sheinbaum Promises to Benefit 12 Million Families With Housing Programs During Her Term

ByNéstor Jiménez

This article by Néstor Jiménez originally appeared in the August 1, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.

Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca. In the Pueblos Hermanos housing development, in the Oaxacan Mixteca, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo stated that a third of the country’s families will benefit from one of the housing programs being launched during her administration.

Leading a delivery to beneficiaries of the Housing for Wellbeing program, the head of the federal Executive pointed out that 12 million families will receive some support in this area during her term.

“Close to a third of all Mexican families will benefit from this program,” she said.

She then detailed that 5.2 million families had “their unpayable loans” restructured. At the same time, her government’s goal is to build 1.8 million Wellbeing homes; 1.8 million families are benefiting from the housing improvement program. These are loans or direct support so that people who own a property can improve their house or apartment.

There will also be one million families that will have deeds to their homes; close to 2.2 million families that will benefit from Infonavit loans, which she clarified are different from those of Housing for Wellbeing.

“So there are 12 million families that we are going to benefit over six years with the housing program, and particularly the Housing for Wellbeing program.”

At this housing development, Sheinbaum Pardo delivered the first 68 apartments, as well as 162 settlement certificates and 133 deeds for residents of Huajuapan de León, a district located 192 kilometers from the state capital.

Moments earlier, in Santo Domingo Tonalá, a little more than an hour south of Huajuapan de León, President Sheinbaum Pardo inspected the progress of the General Lázaro Cárdenas Plan, which also includes drinking water works, strengthening of schools, and support for the region’s artisans; she stated that the health clinics “will be fixed up” “so that they really operate properly.”

In addition, she announced that “a new rate” will be set “for the treatment plants operated by the municipalities, because they pay a lot for electricity and that is wrong.” She attributed the existence of abandoned treatment plants to those payments.