Housing for Wellbeing: Reality or unfulfilled millennial promise?
Ah, the Housing for Wellbeing Program, that project that sounds so nice in PowerPoint but in real life looks like a SimCity game with lag. President Claudia Sheinbaum announced with great fanfare that they already have all the land to build the 186 thousand houses promised this year. Yes, the same ones that swore to deliver before TikTok is filled with memes about inflation. The detail? Only 75% are serious (or so they say).
VIP land: donated, purchased and even by invitation
According to Sheinbaum, the properties are a mix of “what was left over” from municipalities, states, federal and even private lands that either bought them or gave them the typical “are you in?” like when they invite you to a low-paid freelance project. Of course, with the condition that they are for workers who earn less than two minimum wages (that is, almost all of us).
Secretary Edna Vega, for her part, released the star data: 138,473 homes are already in process. What does that mean? That some are under construction (24,902 by Conavi and 29,805 by Infonavit), while others are still in the “land clearing” phase (read: removing debris before someone asks “and the house?”).
Infonavit and its express delivery goal
Octavio Romero, director of Infonavit, promised that by February 2026 they will deliver 7,612 houses in several states. Tamaulipas leads with 1,611, followed by Sinaloa (1,518) and Tabasco (1,252). The others… well, there they go in dribs and drabs. Of course, if you think you’ll get one in CDMX, you better keep dreaming: there’s no trace of them on the list.
And if that were not enough, the six-year goal rose from 1.1 to 1.2 million homes. As? Adding 100 thousand from FOVISSSTE and 250 thousand improvements. That is, not only will they build new houses, but they will also fix the ones that are already a mess (like that apartment you rented at uni).
The million dollar question: will they really arrive?
The director of Conavi, Rodrigo Chávez, assures that they are 62% of their goal. But between us, does anyone remember a housing project that hasn’t been delayed? The good thing is that they promise that they will be close to transportation and schools, not like those subdivisions lost on the map that look like scenes from The Walking Dead.
Meanwhile, the numbers sound nice: 1.55 million upgrade credits and 1 million writings. But, as your aunt would say on WhatsApp: “Seeing is believing.”.
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