Decent housing
Concertación governments have reduced the housing deficit by almost half. However, the public demand for quality and social solutions that avoid segregation.
In the last week met the agreement between a group of 80 families living in the area Michaihue of San Pedro de la Paz and the Ministry of Housing, to residents in four wards of departments with serious deficiencies in construction to move to other groups, some already built and others that will be raised in the coming months.
The Housing Ministry said it has not yet decided the fate of the four pavilions, but the alternatives are: demolish, disarm and rebuild the department for other beneficiaries, recondition them to other uses, including social and community based.
It is a sad epilogue to a crisis for the poor quality of social housing construction that occurred between 1999 and 2000, which was famous for the cases of houses "Copeva", also known popularly as houses "nylon" or "Chubi" which generated a political scandal proportions and led to reformulate the rules and policies.
Although there have been more than six years since that episode, the consequences of those bad decisions are still paying all Chileans, through the costs that the Treasury for repairs and in some cases demolition, as already have been implemented in Santiago and Temuco. These costs also paid about five thousand families in the Bío Bío Region, which since that time living in homes whose quality is not consistent with an effort by the state just five years ago. Whatever
the decision that the Housing Ministry to take on Michaihue departments, it will be questioned. If demolished, they criticize the loss of public resources wasted in homes that were not able to last a decade, whereas in the country yet there are people living on the streets or in camps. If repaired, would call into question the economic rationale for assuming a high cost compared to building a completely new solution. If you do nothing, these flags will become a monument to waste and soon will be occupied illegally, with problems of crime and antisocial behaviors that worsen the quality of life in the neighborhood.
On the other side of the vessel, the housing that has been delivered in the last year the government in the region through programs such as Chile Barrio, is characterized by good quality and high level of satisfaction that have been generated in these families. It was noticeable that during the storms of winter 2006, while the vast middle of Concepcion suffered from floods, new homes delivered in areas such as San Pedro de la Costa resisted without fault the weather.
In a wider perspective, it is fair to say that the Concertación governments have allowed to decrease to almost half the housing deficit in 1990 reached over 900 thousand families without home. For 2005, the homeownership tenure reached 73% of families. But, as pointed out by President Michelle Bachelet, the challenges in housing and urban planning today is different from a decade ago.
community housing demand in urban areas of quality and to avoid segregation. This requires improving neighborhoods and public spaces, including plazas and parks. Herman
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