The Salary Observatory of the Ibero-American University Puebla highlighted the importance of conducting territorial diagnoses to implement a housing program for young people in the region. Nadia Eslinda Castillo Romero, director of the Department of Social Sciences at Ibero Puebla, emphasized that housing is a key indicator of purchasing power and that institutional responses must be based on coherent territorial planning.
During the presentation of the First Housing Report, based on data from Inegi from 2015 to 2023, academics and students from the university highlighted the complicated economic situation of young people in Puebla. Luis Felipe Suárez Vences, a student of Economics and Finance, mentioned that a high percentage of young people in the state earn minimum wages and that the wage gap is significant.
On the other hand, Mar Estrada Jiménez, coordinator of the Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Finance, emphasized the importance of regulating the rental housing market to guarantee the rights of tenants. She stressed the need to create affordable housing for low-income sectors, as the presented study indicates that current housing is not affordable for many young people.
The Salary Observatory proposed the need to explore other housing modalities such as social economy and land sales, as traditional options are inaccessible for the majority. In general, it concluded that wage precariousness directly affects access to decent housing in Puebla.
For its part, the government of Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo has presented a plan to build a million homes and regularize another million, with accessible credits and rental programs focused on young people. Of these, 100,000 homes will be designated for young people aged 18 to 30, located near educational and industrial centers with basic services. The Secretariat of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (Sedatu) plans to construct 239,000 homes in the central region of the country, including Puebla, as part of this initiative.
