Ayuntamiento CDMX

Mexico City's municipal government (Ayuntamiento CDMX, formally the Gobierno de la Ciudad de México) has enacted and suspended short-term rental controls in tandem with the 2026 FIFA World Cup cycle. It passed a 180-day annual STR cap in October 2024 to contain displacement pressure, then delayed proposed rent-cap legislation until after the World Cup ends, and did not respond to Airbnb's injunction against the cap before kickoff.

Mexico City is governed by Claudia Sheinbaum's political successor, following Sheinbaum's election as President of Mexico in June 2024. The city government navigates between a housing movement that spent a year winning the STR cap and a tourism and hospitality sector that sees the World Cup as an unrepeatable revenue event. The accommodation arithmetic is real: 61,500 hotel rooms against 5.5 million anticipated visitors creates a structural gap that platforms currently fill.

Mexico City also doubled most residency-Visa fees effective 1 January 2026. The one-year temporary residency rose from 5,328 to 11,140.74 Mexican pesos (a 109% jump), with no operational guidance issued on how to claim the 50% reduction available on paper for family reunification and job offers. The dual moves, STR cap and fee doubling, suggest a city government extracting revenue from its mobile foreign-resident base while deferring the harder political choices on displacement until after the tournament.

On 22 May 2026 the Ayuntamiento CDMX opened its digital short-let registry at estanciaeventual.CDMX.gob.mx, the platform that was entirely unbuilt three weeks before World Cup kickoff. The registration window runs approximately 30 days, closing around 21 June, eleven days into the tournament. The three-property-per-host limit and 183-night annual cap now carry an enforcement mechanism: hosts who miss the Deadline risk having their listing pulled during the tournament's peak revenue window. No compliance figures have been published.

The policy trajectory is notable. As late as 20 May, Workers Party deputy Gerardo Villanueva was on record: "there is no clarity on limits, no one is monitoring the use of properties." Two days later, the registry went live. The enforcement teeth, however, fall hardest on individual hosts: roughly 1,400 operators registered as companies and holding four or more properties control about half CDMX's short-let supply, and the per-individual cap is legally inapplicable to company-registered operators. With 44,000 visitors projected to use STRs across the tournament window through 19 July, accounting for roughly 274,000 occupied nights, the compliance rate at the registry Deadline will be the first real test of whether the Ayuntamiento's enforcement machine functions or remains statutory.

Proposed rent-cap legislation remains formally parked until after the World Cup final. The broader pattern across CDMX's policy stack is administrative delay followed by late-stage implementation: the statute was written in 2024, the enforcement registry arrived in May 2026, and the compliance Deadline lands mid-tournament.