Frente Anti-Gentrificación CDMX

The Frente Anti-Gentrificación CDMX is a Mexico City-based Coalition of housing and neighbourhood groups that has been organising against platform-driven displacement in central neighbourhoods. The Coalition has documented that approximately 23,000 families, roughly 100,000 people, have left central areas as rents rose following the expansion of short-term rental listings. The Coalition read Mexico City's October 2024 180-day annual cap on short-term rentals as a hard-won policy victory.

The Coalition's political moment in April 2026 is defined by what the 2026 FIFA World Cup is doing to that victory. Mexico City's municipal government has yet to respond to Airbnb's injunction against the 180-day cap, proposed rent-cap legislation has been formally delayed until after the tournament, and short-let hosts are lobbying to suspend the 180-day limit for the World Cup window. The Coalition reads this as the predictable outcome of allowing tourism revenue to override housing protections.

The Frente Anti-Gentrificación CDMX operates without institutional backing and relies on resident documentation and protest mobilisation. Its displacement figure of 23,000 families is the Coalition's own count, relayed by Mexican media, and has not been independently verified by the city government. Its political leverage depends on keeping that figure in public debate as the World Cup approaches.