Developing real estate for squatters and tenants of the City of Buenos Aires
- Cultural preservation
- Housing
- Early childhood development
- Sanitation
- Women's issues
- Urban development
- Sustainability
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Ana
Cutts
Habitat para la Humanidad Argentina
+541147605810
Esmeralda 3430, Florida, Buenos Aires
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Mais de 5 anos
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I began my career working with children of homeless single mothers on the streets of Buenos Aires. Besides running day care centres, we sought decent housing for them and learned about the conditions within the squatter houses, tenemant houses and hotels. Whilst some families chose the slums (villa miserias), most single women did not dare face the violence which could be found in them, and chose parks, abandoned houses or temporary homes.
Twenty years on, as Director of Habitat for Humanity Argentina, I found myself facing the same population again, only with even worse conditions.
A team of professionals undertook to study the situation of housing in the City of Buenos Aires, and might have missed this group of technically homeless families hidden in abandoned houses or illegal hotels - thus escaping most statistics. But with the tips from my previous experience, plus the help of several of the children from the Day Care Centre now in their 20's, we were able to get inside the buildings and hotels, and inside the "typical life" of these over 100.000 families with a large majority of women and children descendants of marginalized neighbouring countries such as Bolivia, Peru or Paraguay.
With the support of a team of vigorous, committed young professionals daring to take on the bureaucracy and daunting complications of the City and Greater Buenos Aires with its 14 million strong population, I am sure that this will be a pilot project which paves the way for numerous successors!
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THe main barrier is the bureaucracy of housing permissions in the City of Buenos Aires. There are no special conditions for non profit projects, and our organization is unfamiliar with the procedures.
In order to minimize these obstacles, the project has had a very high emphasis on awareness and advocacy at all levels. This project is seen not only as one building, but as paving the way for future, bigger projects.
The second barrier comes from the risk of intrusion of the property. The housing situation is deteriorating weekly, and more and more families are seeking squatter accommodation. Having an empty building is high risk.
In order to reduce the risk we have volunteers frequenting the building, alarm systems, and public relations in the neighbourhood and with the poli
Building is expected to begin in January 2011. By the end of 2011 we will have a 4 story building with 7 apartments to rend, and a ground floor dedicated to cultural and social activities.
Also during 2011 we will begin the process to start the second building (fundraising - including social investors).
From 2012 to 2013 the families will be renting, saving and receiving education and training from our organization to empower them to seek a definitive solution, or enter the formal renting market, leaving the Habitat apartment available for new families. (Families are expected to be with HPHA for 2 to 4 years maximum).
The cultural and social activities on the ground floor include arts and crafts of La Boca, workshops and awareness of housing situation in Buenos Aires.
Financial support:
Foundations, Businesses and Individuals have so far provided the U$D 390.000 required to purchase and develop the "conventillo" in La Boca, Buenos Aires.
For future projects, we have the intention that the City Government will provide the building to be developed.
The families renting the building will pay rent and their portion of the expenses required for the upkeep.
After 2 years, between one and two apartments will be sold to the general public to re-invest in a new project.
Non-financial support:
The National Government has given us their written support for the project which helped us with the negotiation for a UN Habitat loan. (We finally did not take this loan since we obtained a grant instead)
Families will be selected and supported by local NGO's partnering with HPHA. In addition the ground floor space for cultural and social activities will be run by a consortium of local NGO's, volunteers and the families themselves.
The project is financially viable for a private loan to cover 50% of the costs and be returned at low risk, low interes, in between 5 and 10 years.
The first project was chosen in La Boca... the tango cultural artistic neighbourhood of Buenos Aires (and also one of the poorest barrios). This was intentional in order to give this first pilot project visibility.
Advocacy, awareness and visibility will be a strong strategy over the next three years to attract support for further buildings.
On the other hand, networking with local NGO's and ensuring strong communal agreements within the apartment block will be key to ensure the succes and positive visibility of this first project.
In addition in 2011, HPHA will be joining Habitat for Humanity International's capital campaign "A World of Hope: its starts a home" through which we envisage support from both local and international social investors and donors.
Design, Tecnologia, Direitos de propriedade, Saneamento, Água, Infra-estrutura, Conservação de energia, Energia renovável, Habitações verdes, Meio ambiente, Desenvolvimento urbano, Participação cidadã/comunitária, Políticas públicas.
In Buenos Aires today, about 100.000 families are excluded from the possibility to improve their housing situation given that they do not have the conditions to obtain a loan for housing (lack of income and savings), and that they are unable to rent. This latter exclusion is due to the reigning conditions in Buenos AIres where it is necessary to have a property in the city of Buenos AIres as collateral for the rent, as well as track record renting and a considerable down payment. Our project provides a way out of this exclusion, by providing decent rents in reconstructed delapidated urban buildings, whereby families have 2 to 4 years of decent housing while they prepare to either rent in the formal market or save up to purchase.
HPHA offers one practical solution through the renovated apartments, but it also uses the project as visibility and awareness to gradually change the conditions in the renting market as well as the public policies surrounding construction by NGO's in the city.
We are partnering with Acindar (providing the steel), Guillelmi (providing a significant donation for the lift), Whirlpool (providing the kitchen appliances).
We also have corporate social responsibility projects (including financing and volunteering) with Cisco, Citi, Ford, GE, Accenture, Goldman & Sachs, Intel, Novartis, Price Waterhouse Coopers.
In general the companies have joined Habitat for Humanity through work teams participating in the communities where we build. In several cases this has turned into a larger proposal including financing of housing loans, training, etc.
Departamento de responsabilidade social corporativa, Departamento de RH, Departamento de vendas.