Santiago Taboadapre-candidate of the “Va por la CDMX” coalition, pointed out the importance of providing legal certainty and clear rules so that real estate developers invest in the capital.
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In a meeting with members of the Association of Real Estate Developers (ADI)recalled that the City Congress discusses the General Urban Development Program, which defines the land use for the capital the next 20 years; however, it is not clear.
“There are things that seem to me to be unclear; these stains that they put, without being much clearer about what areas, what colonies with much greater precision, because for you it would have to start from a function of certainty,” he highlighted.
Santiago Taboada He pointed out that it is necessary to streamline the procedures for the real estate sector, so that the economic reactivation is faster.
“It is presumed that Mexico City contributes a large percentage of the national GDP. This is the great tragedy, in the last five years we occupied the shameful, I think sixth place from the bottom up, we lost competitiveness, that is a reality. And why “Did we lose competitiveness? Because there are no clear rules, because we stopped a part, a very important industry, because there are issues that do have to change, because in some cases you end up being the bad guys in the story,” he noted.
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He precandidate He pointed out that the mitigation works, which are currently mandatory for a developer, should be done by the government.
“The big problem with what you pay is that it goes to the same box in the city treasury, there the money is mixed up and then you can use it today for some occurrence, some emerging program, some program that you now want to promote and not precisely for what has to do with the city’s infrastructure, derived from real estate development,” he said.
And he pointed out that much of the money collected for mitigation measures could have been used to fund the subway or somewhere else. housing project.
“There are neighborhoods three blocks from the eastern periphery that do not have drainage, they don’t tell me, I was there two weeks ago. It’s called La Joya, they call that neighborhood the hole, they have no drainage, they are septic tanks, that is a tragedy in the city,” she said.
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The event, headed by Jaime Fasja, president of the ADI, was attended by representatives of various companies dedicated to real state developmentas well as the local PAN representative Gabriela Salido, member of the Urban Development and Infrastructure commission of the Congress of Mexico City.