Great Mission Housing Venezuela

Great Mission Housing Venezuela (Spanish: Gran Misión Vivienda Venezuela, GMVV) is a program of the Venezuelan government Bolivarian missions to provide housing for people who live in precarious conditions. The program was launched by the Hugo Chávez administration in 2011 and planned to build 350,000 houses by the end of 2012. It would eventually beat this target by 25,000.[1]

Great Mission Housing Venezuela (GMVV)
Gran Misión Vivienda Venezuela
Type of projectBolivarian mission
CountryVenezuela
MinistryMinisterio del Poder Popular para Vivienda y Hábitat
Key peopleHugo Chávez, Nicolás Maduro
Launched2011 (2011)
StatusActive
Websitewww.minhvi.gob.ve
Missions of the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela
Food, Housing & Medicine
Education
Indigenous Rights, Land & Environment
Leaders

History

According to the government, under the GMVV, the government provides residents with a long-term payment plan based on their means, calculating the payments on the building cost of the houses and not the market value of the property, that each resident retains their house for life and can pass the house on to their children. If a resident wishes to sell their house within thirty years of taking possession, the government has first refusal.[2]

In 2014, the squatters of the Centro Financiero Confinanzas were resettled under the program in Cúa, to the south of Caracas.[3] According to the Venezuelan Chamber of Construction, a total of 545,612 homes were built during the 12 years of Chávez's administration, between 1999 and 2010: 284,852 by the public sector and 260,760 by the private sector.[4] According to the Venezuelan government figures, a million Venezuelans were rehoused under the GMVV by March 2016.[2]

In 2015, a woman hit President Nicolás Maduro on the head with a mango that had a message attached asking Maduro to help her find housing. The woman was granted a flat under the scheme afterwards.[5]

Criticism

Corruption

Armando.Info, a Venezuelan investigative journalist outlet, reported that Colombian businessman Alex Saab received US$159 million from the Venezuelan government to import housing materials between 2012 and 2013, but only delivered products worth US$3 million.[6]

On January 25, 2017, Housing Mission state and pro-government workers assembled in front of the headquarters of the Ministry of Housing and Habitat in Barquisimeto to protest the illegal dismissal of their workers and the failure to complete 161 houses in Carora, Torres municipality in Lara state, demanding an response. the president of the Unified Union of the Construction Industry of the state, Pedro Peña, stated that the shell corporation, called Incorsa, left the more than 80 workers without social benefits. The project started in 2013 and was paralyzed in 2014, when the workers demanded the labor benefits they were entitled to by law. The general manager of the project, Juan Gómez, said that there were already suspicions about the integrity of the project, given that construction materials were rarely received, with the sole exception of sand and cement.[7]

In 2017, the president of the Center of Engineers of the state of Zulia (CIDEZ), Marcelo Monnot, denounced inconsistencies between the figures offered by the national government on the investment in the mission's projects, and estimating that there was a $76 billion deficit, whose destination he demanded to be known. The president of the CIDEZ Housing Commission, José Contreras, also pointed out inconsistencies in the figures offered by Governor Francisco Arias Cárdenas.[8]

Estructural deficiencies

In 2013 Enzo Betancourt, president of the Engineers Association of Venezuela, warned about the deterioration of the infrastructure of Misión Vivienda, stating that the Association had constantly called the attention of government authorities. Enzo gave as an example the situation of the Ciudad Caribia housing complex, where by 2012 they had received several complaints of walls that had fallen down, unsupported friezes and cracked walls and slabs. Betancourt said that as a result of the complaints he had warned that all the phases to be taken into account in the construction of the housing should be completed in the short term, that in spite of the haste with which the executive carried out the project, professional and technical factors should be taken into account so that it could be viable and have an optimum quality, and that all the works of the Housing Mission should have a chronogram of activities to execute the works properly..[9]

In 2016, Enzo Betancourt described as false the figures offered by Nicolás Maduro regarding the delivery of new housing, stating that by that date the works had been paralyzed for three months. Enzo stated that the figures included the so-called "Barrio Nuevo Barrio Tricolor", existing shanty houses in slums that were being rebuilt, decorated and falsely presented as new buildings.[10]

On 30 August 2017, cracks in a Misión Vivienda building in Tanaguarenas, Vargas state, grew larger after a 4.5 magnitude earthquake; residents feared that the damage could cause the structures to collapse.[11]

References
  1. Perry, John (6 June 2013). "Lessons from Latin America: the case for public investment in housing". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 3 January 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. Livingstone, Grace (6 March 2016). "Venezuelan social housing: Division over right to buy". BBC News. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  3. "Venezuela Tower of David squatters evicted". BBC News. 22 July 2014. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  4. "Misión Vivienda tendría que construir 2 casas por minuto para cumplir meta de 5 millones". Efecto Cocuyo (in Spanish). 8 May 2018. Retrieved 25 November 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. "Venezuela mango-thrower gets flat from president". BBC News. 25 April 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  6. "Alex Saab: quién es y de qué acusan al empresario vinculado al gobierno de Maduro extraditado a EE.UU". BBC News Mundo (in Spanish). 13 June 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  7. "▷ Denuncian corrupción en la Gran Misión Vivienda Venezuela". El Impulso (in Spanish). 26 January 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
  8. "Lo que Maduro no dice: Destapan olla de corrupción en construcción de Misión Vivienda". El Cooperante. 15 March 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
  9. "Colegio de Ingenieros alerta sobre deterioro en obras de Misión Vivienda". El Diario de Caracas. 6 January 2015. Archived from the original on 6 January 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
  10. "Colegio de Ingenieros: Obras de la Misión Vivienda están paralizadas desde hace tres meses". Televen (in Spanish). 25 August 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
  11. "Sismo causó grietas en edificio de Misión Vivienda en Vargas". El Nacional. 30 August 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
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