- It will also have the purpose of providing legal certainty in irregular settlements
Culiacán, Sinaloa, May 11, 2023.– In what will be a sum of efforts between the State Government and various social organizations promoting housing and human rights, Governor Rubén Rocha Moya formalized an agreement with the State Coordinator for Human Rights, Housing and Territorial Reserves, AC, for the formation of a Committee whose purpose will be to promote the granting of popular housing, as well as legally regularize urban settlements that lack property titles.
The state president received in his office the leaders of several of these organizations that have this purpose, such as Marco Antonio García Espinoza, coordinator of the Central Zone of Rastra Social Campesina; Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez, leader of the Sinaloan Broad Social Movement (MASS); Noé Salvador Rodríguez Peñuelas, North Zone coordinator of the Organization Put Out the Fire; and Oscar Loza Ochoa, as representative of the Commission for the Defense of Human Rights of Sinaloa.
The meeting was to formalize the start of a joint work table, in order to promote decent housing, through the acquisition by the State Government of land reserves available in the 18 municipalities, where feet of houses can be built or allocation of lots for self-construction, but with the commitment of the state to provide basic services, such as drinking water, drainage and electrification.
One of the tasks of this Committee will be the search for these territorial reserves in the municipalities, to make the purchase proposals to the State Government, and with this, advance in the common objective that is to offer decent housing alternatives and with legal certainty for families. of scarce economic resources.
Governor Rocha added that through this Committee the cases of already existing irregular settlements will be addressed with a social vision, since during the meeting specific cases were addressed that date back even 15 years, where the dwellers of the houses do not have the legal certainty of the properties they inhabit.
It was the state president himself who proposed that this Committee meet monthly, to follow up on the work it will develop, and proposed that the Secretary of Administration and Finance, Enrique Díaz Vega, also form part of it; and the Secretary of Well-being and Sustainable Development, María Inés Pérez Corral.
In this first meeting, Governor Rocha was accompanied by state officials who are part of the Committee, such as the Secretary General of the Government, Enrique Inzunza Cázarez; the Secretary of Public Works, José Luis Zavala Cabanillas; the state housing commissioner, Antonio Castañeda Verduzco; the Undersecretary of Government, Rodolfo Jiménez; and the Undersecretary of Evaluation and Planning of SEBIDES, Nicté Loi Ceceña Romero.
