León has 66 thousand abandoned houses; owners leave due to high cost of mobility
In León, there are more than 66 thousand houses and apartments abandoned by their owners for different reasons. The municipality is working on a recovery plan for these spaces to reduce crime rates, recover housing areas for citizens and reactivate the economy.
The mayor of León, Alejandra Gutiérrez Campos, seeks to reach an agreement with the Institute of the National Fund for Workers' Housing, to rehabilitate the more than 66,000 abandoned homes in the city.
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The abandoned houses are found mainly in the poverty poles of the city, such as Las Joyas, Las Hilamas, Villas de San Juan and Brisas del Campestre.
The houses are abandoned mainly due to the high cost of mobility that families have, declared Adolfo Miranda, president of the Board of Directors of the Municipal Housing Institute.
"There are a thousand reasons why the population leaves their homes, in the case of the Central area it is that older people are leaving their homes, their children want to sell them, the homes are abandoned, many of them without a will, but on the outskirts It is because it is very far away for the population, transportation is very expensive, there are several reasons and the phenomenon is national".
He expressed that in the face of this problem, the municipal governments are already more careful in the authorizations for the construction of housing and that it is not more expensive for the workers to move to their house in the periphery than to rent in a more central area.
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"We must be more careful where housing is built, that is why there are redensification policies in areas where there are services, so that people have better living conditions."
He explained that there are also some cases of home abandonment due to the insecurity that exists in the neighborhoods, but emphasized that they are few and that the high cost of living prevails, forcing families to leave their Infonavit homes.
"The costs are what weigh the most, it is not the same as living in the farthest reaches of your work area, traveling two hours a day by bus in the morning to go to work and two more hours in the afternoon to return to house, this makes them spend a lot of time on public transport, in addition to the cost of transport, we must add the cost of food, people cannot return home to eat, there are many costs".
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"In some cases some homes are occupied by criminals, but not always, it is not something generalized, if it happens, we cannot deny it."
He added that Infonavit doesn't always pick up the house and give it back to another family, "These are Infonavit policies, in some cases they do, they recover these houses to rehabilitate them and put them up for sale."
He asked the population to be attentive to the program that the new administration of Mayor Alejandra Gutiérrez Campos will launch, which has been working since the previous three years and whose main goal is for the population to inhabit the houses that are empty in the city. .
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"The municipality's housing program is about to come out, it was prepared by Implan, it will have very up-to-date data, and at Inmuvi we are waiting for the results of that work, we are going to help with the public administration," concluded Adolfo Miranda.
THE DEPARTMENTS OF DEATH
Alma is a neighbor of the Valle de Otates neighborhood, made up of 14 buildings or housing complexes. He points out that they were abandoned by hundreds of families because they spend up to two and a half hours to get to the center of the city and the same time to return to their homes. 5 hours in the truck. To go to work.
The woman is the mother of two children, an 18-year-old boy who fell into addictions for hanging out with gang members and drug addicts who came as paratroopers to invade these apartments. Alma also has a 6-year-old daughter and she does not want her to fall into the clutches of vice as happened with her youngest son.
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The mother of the family has been renting for nearly 3 years in the housing complex that has been baptized by the settlers themselves as the "departments of death", because in 2021 the organized crime gangs were going to throw 4 bodies into its streets .
Of the 14 buildings, only 4 are inhabited, the rest were abandoned by their owners due to the high cost of mobility to go to work.
"I am renting, to go to the Center, route 74 passes and it takes about an hour and another hour and a half to get to the center, it is a lot. If I want to go to Echeveste with relatives it takes more than two hours, I have to take the 48 to Delta , from there he took a truck to San Jerónimo and then the 69 to get to Echeveste, it is very difficult to live like this".
Alma also lamented that the paratroopers have invaded many houses that were abandoned by their owners, a situation that also led to gang activity and drug use.
"Right now it is calmer, but when I arrived it was more difficult, many have already left, but there are still dozens of families of parachutists, they are calmer because those of us who are paying do not let them rob us, we calm them down."
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For a year, a construction company took over the abandoned apartments and those that remained in black work to rehabilitate them, since they were looted of the electrical wiring, doors and windows, as well as the plumbing pipes.
The municipal authority also intervened and through the Municipal Police and the National Guard, managed to get the criminals out, and only the families of parachutists remained, but with these, there were also some young drug users who have nowhere to live.
Alma's husband is a truck driver and no longer wants to live in the apartments of death, since the buildings are still inhabited by consumers.
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"It is full of paratroopers, they are calm, but among them there are many drug addicts and I no longer want my son to mix with them, in addition to the fact that they have shot dead, two men and a girl who came to shoot them, in addition to killing a ma'am, that's why they put the apartments of death on them, but they weren't residents here, they just came to throw them away".
"The construction company has already started remodeling the two buildings in the background, they are going to repair all of them, they are also going to throw all the paratroopers out and those who do not pay rent or Infonavit, the Police enter more often and the National Guard," commented the neighbor of Valle de Otates in the area of Villas de San Juan.
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Isabel Cruz, an ejido member of Las Joyas, considered the largest pole of poverty in the state and in which about 140,000 Leonese live, pointed out that in Las Joyas the Infonavit houses that are abandoned are due to violence and insecurity, above the economic situation.
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"I say they don't leave because of the cost, because the rents and the Infonavit payment is not very high, the neighbors tell us, but we know that they left because of the risks of insecurity, I am an ejidataria, in the neighborhood there were no problems, but As the ejidatarios were selling, people came from other places and started the problems and we don't know where they come from".
The mother of the family clarified that in her ejido people do not leave their homes, because the price is very different with respect to the houses that are bought from Infonavit, which are very small and expensive.
"The settlers of Cerrito Amarillo are owners, due to the lack of a signature they could not be registered, they do not leave their houses, they have bought land of 25 by 50 meters, no one leaves their houses, those who have left belong to other colonies and it is because of crime," said Mrs. Isabel Cruz.
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