Last July, the deputies Martha Ávila and Valentina Batres, from Morena, presented an initiative to reform the Civil Code in matters of leasing in the local Congress of Mexico City. In the framework of the health contingency due to Covid-19 and the negative economic and financial effects derived from it, the argument of this initiative was to protect the vulnerable population from possible evictions due to the difficulty in paying rent in cases of emergency, natural disasters or any other situation that paralyzes economic activities and prevents the lessee from complying with the contract.

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