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Gender into Urban Climate Change Initiative
The availability of services in the housing in the CDMX is related to the degree of urbanization; for example, according to statistical data, 89.4% of the houses have piped water, 98.8% have drainage, 99.4% have sanitary service, 99.8% have electricity and 58% have internet. 12 Although these figures are significantly higher than those of other cities in the country, they also imply a greater use of resources and higher energy consumption. In fact, the demographic density is beginning to generate
12 These data account for access but not for the affordability and quality of services, for example, the Internet in the city is still poor, since it does not have full coverage and compared to other parts of the world, the downloading average speed is very low, at just 5.7 Mbps (megabits per second) (Cable.co.uk, 2019).