Infonavit rules out increased housing costs due to tariffs

Oropeza emphasized that they have sufficient financial resources to achieve the goal of building 600,000 affordable housing units, as they have 170 billion pesos available, the funds allocated for construction alone. Credit: Juan Carlos Rodríguez

The cost of housing construction, primarily low-income housing, will not increase despite the tariffs on steel and aluminum, compared to what construction companies have predicted, said Octavio Romero Oropeza, general director of the National Workers' Housing Fund Institute ( Infonavit ).