Faced with CDMX Inaction, Committee Seeks to Recover Fidel & Che Statues
Mexico City’s Clara Brugada has made no progress recovering the statues after they were illegally removed by the ultra-right wing Cuauhtémoc mayor.
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Mexico City Fails to Control Airbnb Ahead of 2026 World Cup
Proposed legislation from both Batres’ interm administration & the current Brugada government has not been instituted: no one is monitoring property use & a digital registry that was supposed to be operational since 2024 remains inactive.
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Torre Mítikah left Xoco with Little Water, Classism & Aggression
The Mítikah luxury apartment & shopping complex consumes 12 percent of all the water received by the pre-Hispanic town, increasing water shortages by 1,750% between 2018 and 2022
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Mexico City Will Expropriate 400 Buildings to Build Social Housing
The expropriations are part of the city government’s committment to guarantee the right to decent, affordable housing for the lowest-income population.
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First Units in CDMX Affordable Social Housing Program Will be Ready in 2026
By the end of Clara Brugada’s 6-year term, in 2030, there will be 20,000 new units available for youth under 35.
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Mexico City’s Utopias
Community centers in Mexico City’s most populous and poorest borough demonstrates their transformative power and presents a model for other cities throughout the world.
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Mexico City Trains 100 Officers Against Dispossession
The program seeks to provide Public Prosecutors with legal tools to more effectively handle cases of dispossession, which is an ongoing issue related to the gentrification of the city.
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CDMX’ Brugada Delivers Report on First Year in Office
Mexico City’s head of government announced before the capital’s Congress the submission of five initiatives on care, gender, and security in her first Informe.
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Mexico City Land Use Planning & Precarity
Alejandro Encinas’ departure for the Organization of American States leaves a key position vacant during a critical period in the city’s fight against the real estate cartel.
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Waste Separation Mandatory in Mexico City as of January 2026
The ambitious plan could come up against the reality that plastics recycling is mostly economically and technically unfeasible.
