Frente Aqui Somos

Frente Aqui Somos is a residents' collective based in Mexico City's Condesa and Roma neighbourhoods, two of the areas most affected by short-term-rental-driven displacement in the city centre. In June 2026 the group filed amparo expediente 919/2025 against the Ayuntamiento CDMX, arguing the city had failed to switch on the short-let registry it had been legally required to open since October 2024. That filing put the collective on the opposite side of the same regulatory act from the 400-plus hosts who filed amparos to suspend the 183-night occupancy cap, leaving the government sued from both directions simultaneously.

The collective operates in the broader Left-housing-movement axis that has pushed back against gentrification and touristification in central CDMX neighbourhoods since the mid-2010s, when Airbnb supply began displacing long-term tenants in Roma Norte, Condesa, and adjacent colonias. Its use of the amparo mechanism, a constitutional injunction under Mexican federal law, distinguishes it from protest-only groups: the filing forces a court to rule on whether the city met its own legal obligations, creating a record that can survive political changes at the Ayuntamiento.

The collective's significance is structural: it occupies the accountability gap between a city government that opened a registry weeks before a World Cup Deadline and the courts processing hundreds of host injunctions. By pursuing the inactivation failure rather than the cap itself, Frente Aqui Somos applies pressure on the enforcement gap that corporate operators, who hold roughly half of CDMX short-let supply and fall outside the three-property cap entirely, exploit without legal challenge.