RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – On Sunday, July 3, Chile’s Government presented a housing emergency plan to build more than 260,000 houses during the term of Chilean President Gabriel Boric.
“Our country faces an acute crisis of access to housing and the benefits of the city, deepened by a growing housing deficit. It requires that the State once again exercise its fundamental role in ensuring the right to quality housing for all,” reads a statement from the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism.
The Minister of Housing and Urbanism, Carlos Montes, explained that the plan also seeks to establish 6,000 municipally-owned housing units, the BioBio Chile radio station reported.
Montes has assured that “the public-private alliance is fundamental to achieve such ambitious goals”.
The head of the Housing portfolio has specified that 20,000 housing units will be guaranteed for rent at a fair price. He also indicated that assisted self-construction would be recovered so that at least 6,000 families could build their homes.
For his part, Boric has declared that the housing solution must be seen “as a State policy”, adding that he intends to move from “the dream of a house of one’s own” to “the right to decent housing”.
“We are not doing them a favor. We are guaranteeing something that should be the right of all inhabitants,” said the Chilean president.
For this year, it is estimated that 65,000 houses will be built, which have been qualified by the Executive as “dignified” regarding spaces, interaction, and connectivity.
With information from Europa Press