The Ministry of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (Sedatu) has invested about 3,500 million pesos to improve the urban environment of 10 border cities, in order to raise the standard of living in these regions with a high level of marginalization.
This Tuesday the Binational Forum for Metropolitan Management was held, where Javier Garduño Arredondo, head of the Institutional Planning and Development Unit, highlighted that there is a bilateral agenda with the United States on territorial matters, in order to strengthen urban development and housing of cross-border communities.
“The Sedatu contributes in this new era that is being built with the United States; a territorial vision with shared agendas that allows the possibility of leaving no one behind and leaving no one outside and setting common goals for the good of the regions ”, commented the official.
According to Garduño Arredondo, since 2019, in Nuevo Laredo the Sedatu began with six projects in which 350 million pesos were invested; in addition to having interventions in the cities of Reynosa, Matamoros, Ciudad Juárez, Piedras Negras, Acuña, Nogales, San Luis Río Colorado, Tijuana and Mexicali.
In her speech, the municipal president of Nuevo Laredo, Carmen Lilia Canturosas Villareal, commented that, with the intervention of the federal government in this region in urban matters, urban resilience was promoted in order to raise the quality of life of families.
“We must take care of and promote the works that are changing the lives of citizens, together we must continue to improve urban planning and avoid irregular settlements so that the population can grow in resilient and orderly cities,” said the official.
The Binational Forum for Metropolitan Management is a space for dialogue between border mayors and other relevant stakeholders to discuss and define public policies in areas of economic and territorial development with metropolitan impact and social benefit.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx