After 18 years, FOVISSSTE will build housing again: Martí Batres

• The ISSSTE general director stated that in the Second Stage of the Fourth Transformation, FOVISSSTE will recover its social character by building housing for the benefit of the poor.
• In addition, 198 severance certificates were delivered to beneficiaries accredited with FOVISSSTE, as well as 350 permanently valid credentials to retirees and pensioners.
• Martí Batres also visited the Tlalpan CMF (Center for Medical Education) where he supervised the roof, handrails, and ramp construction, as well as the medical equipment, including glucometers, infrared thermometers, digital blood pressure monitors, and examination tables, with 1.1 million pesos awarded by the La Clínica es Nuestra Program.

Mexico City, August 2, 2025.- The general director of the Institute of Security and Social Services for State Workers (ISSSTE), Martí Batres Guadarrama, announced that after almost two decades of being unable to build, the Housing Fund (FOVISSSTE) will once again build homes in Mexico City in 2025, benefiting the lowest-income earners.

"FOVISSSTE will begin building housing again starting this year, 2025. After 18 years of not being able to build housing, it will build and prioritize precisely the lowest-earning workers, because not everyone can afford a loan in the real estate market," he emphasized.

At the ISSSTE facilities, located in the San Fernando complex, where 198 settlement certificates were delivered to beneficiaries accredited with FOVISSSTE, Martí Batres emphasized that the above, which will be carried out on the Second Floor of the Fourth Transformation, headed by President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, will support those who cannot buy a home in the city with their credit and have to look for other alternatives.

"Because if the loan they can give you is 400,000 pesos and you go to the real estate market and they tell you, 'The down payment is one million,' then obviously, what do you do with the loan? Well, you can get it in a very faraway place. You live in Mexico City and have to travel to Tecámac to get your loan, because there's simply no place," he said.

FOVISSSTE Executive Director Jabnely Maldonado Meza reiterated all the actions the Housing Fund has taken to restore its social character, such as the support program to facilitate mortgage repayments and the strategy to guarantee the right to a home for state workers.

"In this new phase of FOVISSSTE, we have set many goals for the benefit of all beneficiaries, for the benefit of borrowers. These goals aim to achieve social justice and rethink the loans that were designed with a financial rationale rather than a social focus, which is necessary, especially because the Housing Fund is a social instrument for public servants to have access to the right to housing and the right to property," he emphasized.

For her part, Claudia López Martínez, the representative of the beneficiaries of the FOVISSSTE settlement, shared her excitement upon discovering that she had been given a 780,829 pesos discount, meaning she no longer owed anything on her problematic debt.

“It really felt like a weight was lifted off my shoulders. I don't know if some of you felt it too, knowing that we have a huge debt and suddenly I was relieved. And even more so when I saw on my bill that there was no longer a discount, I said, 'After 20 years, I'm seeing a little more on my bill.' I really liked that part too, and I'm very happy with it,” she said.

Likewise, the general director of ISSSTE, Martí Batres, visited the Tlalpan Family Medicine Unit (UMF), which serves 71,452 beneficiaries, to supervise the roof, handrails, and ramp works, as well as the medical equipment acquired through the La Clínica es Nuestra program, which awarded COSABI 1.1 million pesos to that unit.

"This clinic received 1.1 million pesos, the amount of which was decided to invest in 40 glucometers for measuring blood sugar; 40 pulse oximeters; 10 high-speed handpieces; 10 low-speed handpieces; 40 infrared thermometers; 21 digital sphygmomanometers for measuring blood pressure; a wooden bench; three Chaise lounge chairs; three universal examination tables; 18 glucometer test strips; nine glucometer lancets; and two electrocardiographs," he specified.

Martí Batres also noted that the CMF will receive scales, mini-splits for X-rays, plates, mirrors for dental services, and video surveillance cameras.

Finally, at the facilities of the Economic Benefits Administrative Unit Number 2 of the Southern Zone Regional Delegation, the ISSSTE general director symbolically presented one of the 350 permanently valid credentials granted to ISSSTE pensioners and retirees, who will no longer have to renew this process every two years.

"What we're doing here is facilitating the exercise of rights, which can't be subject to a two-year term because they're permanent rights; in this case, for retirees, they're lifelong rights. (...) It's a way to provide better treatment, humane treatment, dignified treatment to our beneficiaries, which is the case throughout the country," he reaffirmed.

Finally, the Director of Economic, Social, and Cultural Benefits, Juan Gerardo López Hernández, commented that the objective of the event was to distribute the cards that had been requested.

"In this case, Mr. Director, the credentials being distributed—350 will be distributed today, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.—are credentials that had already been produced, that had already been requested by our retired colleagues, but who hadn't been able to come for them. So it was decided to hold this event on Saturday so that they, accompanied by their families, could come on a more convenient day," he concluded.