Why the housing strategy for low-income people in Mexico has failed

Insecurity, remoteness of economic activity zones and lack of basic services such as water, electricity and health care, are the main causes why around five million homes, located mainly in five states, have been abandoned, according to the Coneval.

The Diagnostic Study on the Right to Decent and Decent Housing 2018, prepared by the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval), states that this phenomenon is due to a mbadive production of poor quality homes on the site, in the absence of mortgages and the situation of vulnerability to violence in the environment.

At the state level, Chihuahua (19.2%), Baja California (19%), Tamaulipas (18.7%), Zacatecas (18.4%) and Durango (18.1%) are the entities that reported the highest percentages of uninhabited housing..

In return, Mexico City (7.9%). Campeche (9.9%) and Chiapas (10.1%) are the states with the lowest percentage.

Coneval's diagnosis also identifies forced internal displacement caused by insecurity as one of the causes of abandoned housing, mainly in Guerrero, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Chiapas and Oaxaca.

91.6% of all vacant dwellings are located in urban areas of the country.

45% of households in the country are lagging behind

According to the diagnosis, 14 million Mexican households (45%) are behind schedule.

The states with Chiapas (78.2%), Oaxaca (77.8%) and Guerrero (72%) are the most backward.

Across the country, sOnly 14.7% of households are well located, that is, they have basic infrastructure and are close to sources of employment. Mexico City (100%), Tlaxcala (86.8%) and Durango (57.5%) they concentrate the highest percentage.

Although at the national level the coverage of basic services is "high" (only 19.3% of the population suffers from deficiencies), in rural areas 53.1% of households have this type of gap.

Coneval has identified that the central and northern states are those with greater availability of basic and complementary servicesin particular Aguascalientes, Colima and Mexico.

In contrast, the southern states, mainly Guerrero, Chiapas and Oaxaca, have the lowest levels of coverage in basic and complementary services.

Half of Mexicans dissatisfied with their home

On acceptability, Coneval has identified that near the 50% of Mexicans are dissatisfied with their homemainly in Tlaxcala (25.8%), Guerrero (17.8%) and Tabasco (13.9%).

38.4% of the population said they were satisfied with their neighborhood. According to the diagnosis, Puebla entity with the lowest reported satisfaction (11.1%), and if not, it is Sinaloa (74.42%).

In addition, one in three Mexicans said they were suspicious of their neighbors; 24.3% said they did not feel safe at home and over 70% said they felt insecurity in the streets.

At the national level, 89.3% of those surveyed said they know about practices badociated with insecurity in their neighborhoods, such as street drinking, frequent theft or badault, drug use or sale, gangs, frequent shootings and homicides.

The State of Mexico City, Mexico City, Morelos, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Tabasco, Campeche and Quintana Roo have the worst community quality.

Only 2.6% of young people could buy a new home

According to Coneval, the young population, indigenous peoples and those on the street are the most difficult to access the right to decent and decent housing.

The data from the study show that the 79.1% of the Aboriginal population has a backlog at home: in 15.2% of cases, they need a new home and in 63.9%, improvements are needed.

The lack of quality and housing spaces is present in 30.2% of the indigenous population.

On the case of young people, 13.2% of them have a lack of quality and housing spaces and 19.9% ​​do not have access to basic services.

According to data from the National Commission for the Protection and Defense of
Users of financial services (Condusef), given the income of young people, the rent of a home can represent between 40 and 50% of the monthly budget, without including services, which constitutes for them a barrier to access to housing .

Coneval felt that 50% of 18 to 24 year olds live with their parentsand only 2.6% could acquire a new home.

About the shortcomings of the population in street situation, Coneval said that the information was missing and that it was therefore difficult to identify the spaces that required intervention at the national level. He therefore urged to create actions to know their conditions and characteristics "and so be able to devise effective strategies that can reverse their vulnerability. "