Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Bereavement Letter From Church



The housing problems of the City of Buenos Aires is manifested, it explodes and gets to kill. Difficult this situation is resolved soon. While the authorities put patches and "wired", the solution is more and more away. This issue we see there on the South Side, is also near the Obelisk, in the most touristic of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, La Boca, a few meters from the Casa Rosada. There coexist property taken, tenement at risk of collapse, pension hotels where they live from 8 to 10 people in a room of minimum actions, similar or worse conditions of that show in awe means of "distant villages of the south."

While discussing the plans for housing in cities all over the world a growing percentage of families choose to rent just like a viable workaround. But in Buenos Aires, to the possibilities of renting apartments in appropriate conditions are insignificant. Behind a facade hiding picturesque usury violence, structural danger and helplessness of those who are excluded formal market rents. For two years
Habitat for Humanity Argentina, offers these families a project "under the Care Rentals, where we provide a security and social support for access to rents in suitable environments. However, we could locate only 4 families of the 100 who have registered for two very related to the situation which exploded in the southern city of Buenos Aires

- Lack of law to resolve breaches rental contracts.
- Lack of supply units for rent.

addition, a year ago to expedite the necessary permits to build suitable units for fair rents in the neighborhood of La Boca but there are many obstacles, ranging from bureaucracy to petty and unrealistic positions which ignore the housing emergency in that city. There are over 100 thousand units in disuse or misuse in Buenos Aires, while another 100 thousand families living in conditions that today threaten the health and future of their / our children. Urge

a political decision to support the different projects presented by NGOs, focused on urban housing and to refurbish these areas and emergency relief housing, among others, the tourist neighborhood and also more precarious Buenos City Aires.
Ana Cutts
National Director of Habitat for Humanity Argentina

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