Overview
- Mexico City, which UN-Habitat selected Monday, beat bids from Moscow and Fortaleza after a rigorous, competitive review.
- Officials began a two-year preparation phase that will install a broad Comité Promotor to shape the program and coordinate logistics across government, civil society, business and academia.
- Mexico will receive the formal handover in May 2026 in Baku, Azerbaijan, which marks the official start of the organization work.
- Leaders plan to showcase local policies such as Las Utopías public spaces and more than 500,000 housing actions, and they signaled a coming rent-regulation bill.
- UN-Habitat’s World Urban Forum is a biennial global meeting on city policy, and the 2028 edition in Mexico City will center on housing, mobility, inequality and governance with a stronger Latin American voice.