recipes for sustainable housing Infonavit
During 2010 the Institute of the National Housing Fund for Workers (Infonavit) 122 063 gave credit to purchase homes with items that help to save water and electricity, which represents 16 665 more than those granted funding in 2009.
From 2007 to date, the acquisition was at Green Mortgages 229 063 properties, which are concentrated in the states of Tamaulipas, Chihuahua, Baja California and Coahuila. Next year, construction of houses with these features will be expanded throughout the country, because Infonavit recently announced that all homes must have registered builders eco-technology features such as solar heaters, energy saving light bulbs and water filters.
The implementation of technology to lower consumption of electricity, water and gas will cause households to save between 200 and 400 pesos per month on these services. Both new housing as those used to acquire the title should have elements friendly to the environment, said a few days ago Setién Víctor Manuel Borrás, director general of Infonavit.
To ensure this, the Institute has a budget of 3 000 million pesos that will fund the implementation of cost-saving features and environmental care. In turn, the sobrecrédito entitled to receive for the purchase housing is a function both of their salary as monthly savings result obtained by the use of such eco-technologies.
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