During her visit to Tlajomulco for the inauguration of a new hospital, President Claudia Sheinbaum pledged to support the municipality’s efforts to address the thousands of abandoned homes as part of her national housing initiative.
Tlajomulco, perched in the southwest of the Guadalajara metropolitan area, is home to around 70,000 vacant, vandalized or half-built houses in neglected subdivisions—a legacy of poor infrastructure investment, economic hardship, and greedy, incompetent developers.
Most homeowners in these modest residential subdivisions obtained their properties in the early 2000s through Infonavit (the National Workers’ Housing Fund Institute), the government agency that offers loans to people unable to afford market-rate housing. Developers, eager to take advantage of the “neoliberal” economy, focused heavily on building these unassuming subdivisions in Tlajomulco, even as supply quickly began to outstrip demand.
Fast forward a few decades, and the panorama has drastically changed.
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