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The absence of governmental strategies of disaster prevention in Mexico and the omission of responsibility in a society dominated by financial markets and free trade, lead to a justification of disasters as inevitable. The perspective of the right to appropriate housing contributes to an understanding that vulnerability is being increased by the post-disaster recovery programs and by the absence of a political decision to work with the affected population. In this article the author proposes a preventive and participative focus, based on a new conception of security that is centered in the human individual.