Jesús Sesma

Jesús Sesma is a councillor in Mexico City's (CDMX) Legislative Assembly representing the Partido Verde Ecologista de México (PVEM), Mexico's Green Party, which governs in Coalition with the ruling Morena party. In April 2026, Sesma put forward a legislative proposal to pause CDMX's 180-day annual short-term rental cap — enacted in October 2024 to contain housing displacement — during the window of the 2026 FIFA World Cup (11 June to 19 July 2026), in which Mexico City is a host city with matches at Estadio Azteca.

Sesma's justification was accommodation capacity: Mexico City has an estimated 61,500 hotel rooms against an anticipated tournament demand of several hundred thousand visitors, and the platform short-let inventory is a material component of the gap. His proposal reflects the logic advanced by Airbnb Mexico director Jorge Balderrama and is consistent with the pattern documented in the previous briefing update, where the cap was being informally suspended in practice ahead of the tournament.

The proposal put Sesma at odds with Mexico City's housing movement (Frente Anti-Gentrificación CDMX), which characterised it as the ruling Coalition subordinating a hard-won housing protection to tourism revenue and effectively conceding that the cap cannot survive commercial pressure at the first test.