Claudia Sheinbaum Delivers 947 Housing Benefits in Tecamac

President Claudia Sheinbaum delivered 947 housing-related benefits to women in Tecamac, including 500 property deeds and 447 FOVISSSTE loan relief certificates, as part of a broader push to expand legal certainty, reduce housing debt and strengthen access to affordable housing. The event also highlighted local efforts to boost women’s economic autonomy through Tecámac’s MX$15 million “My First Investment” credit program.

President Claudia Sheinbaum delivered 500 property deeds and 447 FOVISSSTE loan cancellation certificates to women, while local authorities launched a MX$15 million (US$842,876) entrepreneurship-credit program aimed at expanding women-led businesses.

The property deeds were delivered through the National Institute for Sustainable Land, INSUS, and the cancellation certificates to women in Tecamac, State of Mexico. At the ceremony, Sheinbaum framed homeownership as a matter of gender justice, noting that formal title has historically been denied to many women, even when they helped pay for the home.

Sheinbaum says deed ownership offers legal certainty and helps protect women from dispossession. This is particularly relevant when homes were traditionally registered in the name of a husband. She also criticized the structure of housing finance in past decades, saying the mortgage model created during the other presidencies period left millions of borrowers with unpayable debts. 

According to the presidency and the Secretariat of Agrarian, Territorial, and Urban Development (SEDATU), more than 5 million INFONAVIT beneficiaries and more than 400,000 FOVISSSTE borrowers were affected by loans that are now being restructured or forgiven under the current administration.

Housing for Well-Being Strategy and National Targets

The Tecamac deliveries are linked to the government’s broader Housing for Well-Being strategy. Sheinbaum said the federal government plans to build 1.8 million homes for people earning between one and two minimum wages, adding that more than 400,000 homes have already been built nationwide. The policy is part of a wider affordable housing push in which INFONAVIT and other federal agencies have taken a leading role in expanding low-income supply, regularizing tenure and addressing distressed loans.

Housing officials stressed that the gender gap in property ownership remains significant. Edna Vega, Minister, SEDATU said 2.3 million woman-headed households in Mexico do not have deeds, and among households that do, only four in 10 titles are in women’s names. In the State of Mexico alone, she noted, the housing construction target exceeds 100,000 units, while INSUS is expected to deliver more than 360,000 deeds.

Beyond housing, Sheinbaum outlined additional measures that her government will highlight in March. These include the inauguration of the “La Pastora” Women’s Oncology Hospital in Gustavo A. Madero, Mexico City, focused on breast cancer care, as well as the continued rollout of the Pension Mujeres Bienestar, the construction of LIBRE centers and efforts to give women greater visibility in Mexican history. She also announced that the March 8 commemoration would include women from the Armed Forces, whom she described as anonymous heroines serving in spaces historically occupied by men.

At the municipal level, Rosi Wong, Mayor of Tecemac, added an economic empowerment component to the 8M agenda through the delivery of credits under the “My First Investment” program. The initiative channeled MX$15 million to support women starting or expanding self-employment and small business activities, particularly in catalog sales and networking-based ventures. 

According to local reports, Wong said the high level of participation in the program demonstrated both demand for capital and the entrepreneurial capacity of women in the municipality. She announced plans to propose three next steps to the municipal council, a second call for applicants who were not included in the first round, a training and certification phase so beneficiaries can become facilitators and networking specialists.

Wong also proposed the creation of a municipal financing pool of around MX$20 million (US$1.1 million) to offer interest-free, no-guarantee loans to women who complete training and seek to scale their businesses.