Overview

• Representatives of Vecinos y Anfitriones delivered a written proposal to Morena deputies Brenda Ruiz Aguilar and Iliana Sánchez Chávez in the Mexico City Congress.
• The document seeks to exclude hosts with one to three properties from the 50% annual nights limit set by the 2024 reform to the city’s Tourism Law.
• The plan calls for mandatory smoke detectors, fire extinguishers and disaster protocols coordinated with Protección Civil (SGIRPC) for earthquakes, floods and fires.
• The hosts propose directing 1.5% of the lodging tax to training and promotion programs for neighborhood micro and small businesses.
• Speakers urged sanctions on real-estate firms alleged to run clandestine hotels and warned that planned rules for tensioned zones could disproportionately affect small hosts.