Mexico to Build Half a Million New Bedrooms to Ease Misery and Domestic Violence GCR
go to original October 15, 2015

Housing minister Rosario Robles Berlango, center, announcing the “un cuarto más” plan on 12 October 2015. (Government of Mexico)

The government of Mexico has launched an ambitious program to add bedrooms to half a million homes where residents suffer from overcrowding.

The “un cuarto más” scheme (“one more room”), which aims to help more than two million people, was announced at a press conference by Rosario Robles Berlango, the minister for urban development.

She claimed the initiative would cut domestic violence, and have an economic impact in Mexico worth 20 billion pesos.

“It has been proven that overcrowding generates health problems and domestic violence, where most of the victims are girls and women,” she told reporters, adding that the problem was worse on the fringes of large urban areas, where migration leads people into “belts of misery”.

She said the program could create as many as 2.5 million jobs.

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