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Mexico City Lawmaker Unveils Bill to Protect Rights of Street Populations

The proposal shifts focus to documentation access, low‑barrier services, judicial safeguards.

Overview

  • Royfid Torres of Movimiento Ciudadano introduced the initiative in the Mexico City Congress, where it remains a proposal with no vote or timetable reported.
  • Article 9 would provide free public identity documents to people living on the streets or at risk, enabling legal identification and recognition of legal personality.
  • The draft obligates the local government to design comprehensive reintegration policies and to run assistance programs for housing, health, work, education and food with minimal access requirements.
  • Article 8 bars evictions, removals or relocations of street populations without a reasoned judicial order issued by a competent authority.
  • The initiative reframes street populations as organized communities and full subjects of rights, and it defines eligibility as lacking a fixed residence and living on the street permanently or temporarily without steady income and in social exclusion.