Mexico City (CDMX) sits 22 days from kickoff with a digital STR registry that has never been built. Airbnb and host amparos (constitutional injunctions) have suspended both the 50% annual nights cap and the mandatory registration system. The Jefatura de Gobierno has not formally repealed either; it has simply not implemented them1. Workers Party deputy Gerardo Villanueva went on the record: "there is no clarity on limits, no one is monitoring the use of properties."
Kickoff at Estadio Azteca is Thursday 11 June. Projections show 44,000 visitors using STRs during the tournament window through Sunday 19 July, accounting for roughly 274,000 occupied nights2. The proposed rent-cap legislation that was meant to follow the STR cap has been formally parked until after the final whistle. The Sesma proposal to formalise the cap suspension, filed in Congress on Wednesday 22 April, was never enacted; the absence of a vote is itself the policy.
The pattern across Mexico City's housing stack is administrative non-implementation rather than legislative repeal: leave the rules on the statute books, do not build the enforcement machine, let the tournament arrive. The amparo route lets a single host injunction suspend enforcement of a municipal ordinance pending a substantive ruling that may take years, a deliberate feature of Mexican administrative law rather than a constitutional accident.
The 274,000 occupied nights translate into roughly four-to-six weeks of peak rent pressure in Roma, Condesa and Juárez. The precedent set is that major sporting events override municipal housing protections by default. FIFA's 2030 and 2034 host-city accommodation commitments now carry a working template for tournament-time STR cap suspension.
