yet these policies largely driven by quantitative objectives came with high qualitative costs for the country s urban development housing development had been identified as an integral component of the country s development in previous national development plans and conceived as a question of ensuring housing in sufficient quantity at a minimum level of quality particularly for populations in poverty and with lower incomes federal housing finance programmes including subsidies for lowincome populations offered by the national housing commission comision nacional de vivienda conavi the national trust fund for popular housing fondo nacional de habitaciones populares fonhapo and the ministry of social development secretaria de desarrollo social sedesol and publicly backed mortgages offered by infonavit fovissste and others have been integral in supporting the push to expand housing access