Short an Estimated 9 Million Homes, Pena Nieto to Promote Housing Programs Circe Vargon - The News
go to original May 7, 2013

Thirty-five million Mexicans lack sufficient housing and government agencies must work efficiently and quickly to fill a gap of 9 million homes in Mexico, according to President Enrique Peña Nieto.

While in Campeche on a working tour, the president presented security officers with the keys to new homes as part of the Security Agents National Housing Program. It is only right that people who put their lives at risk for the public have decent and dignified homes, Peña Nieto said. “We cannot continue building one-room homes that do not guarantee dignified conditions.”

Although housing in Mexico has improved in the past decades, Peña Nieto said that “there is still a ways to go before each and every Mexican can exercise their fundamental right to own their own home.” Security workers are one of the largest groups of residents lacking decent housing, he added.

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