Claudia Sheinbaum Delivers Housing and Settlements of Unpayable Loans in Chiapas

ByAlonso Urrutia

This article by Alonso Urrutia originally appeared in the June 28, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.

Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chis. Leading an event to deliver housing and to settle unpayable loans granted in the past, President Claudia Sheinbaum maintained that the housing construction policy -whose six-year target is 1.8 million homes- contributes one percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product, in addition to generating thousands of direct and indirect jobs.

At the same time, she mentioned that by carrying out the review of five million loans granted during the neoliberal period by Infonavit and Fovissste, twenty million Mexicans have been benefited, on a basis of four people per family, eliminating the excesses committed in the past.

She cited the case of Carlos Ortiz, who requested a loan of 89,000 pesos and to date had already paid 446,000 pesos and still owed 1,350,000 pesos. Or Griselda Gutiérrez, who requested a loan of 85,000 pesos and had already paid 578,000 pesos and still owed 1,130,000 pesos.

Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. June 28, 2026. Photo: Hazel Cárdenas/Presidencia

Sheinbaum questioned the housing policy during neoliberalism because it practically canceled the construction of houses and apartments to replace it with the granting of unpayable loans that only benefited the real estate developer to the detriment of the beneficiaries.

In her remarks, the Secretary of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development, Edna Vega, said that the present administration’s housing policy has four components: the construction of 1,800,000 homes; the delivery of a similar amount of support for home improvement; the mass titling of 700,000 homes; and the forgiveness of unpayable loans.

Vega said that progress “really is going very, very fast” and that to date 600,000 homes are already under construction. She said that in the case of Chiapas, 50 percent of the seventy thousand houses that are planned to be built during the six-year term are already in that process.