The urban planning profile that Juan Grabois tried to acquire with his initiatives to improve the so-called popular neighborhoods was not very different, in its mechanisms, from the processes used by other characters linked to Kirchnerism and, above all, public funds.
The “joint venture” of real estate companies takes off unthinkablewhat they formed Ebe de Bonafini at the head of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo e Sergio Schöklender, with your plan “Shared Dreams”. Later it appeared Room of miracles with the group Tupac Amaru. Now Grabois with his men Secretariat for socio-urban integration.
The path is always the same. Very close to the turn power, which is needed to get Much money, without the relevant controls, poorly justified expenses, corruption, lack of controls, scandals…
What is noteworthy is that faced with the pitiful lack of housing (in quality and quantity) all the characters develop a drive for urbanization, a terribly complicated science.
It is true that housing, or in simpler terms the dream of one’s home, is a concept available to the leader or governor who promises them by the thousands or hundreds of thousands. It happens in all provinces.
“We will build the houses that the state doesn’t” seems to be the idea that has aligned the social leaders mentioned above.
But Urban planning is a serious matter.
Building a neighborhood is much more than drawing a grid of streets and placing buildings next to each other until the blocks are complete. Urban planning involves the design of physical space, but also addresses its influence on society and the private and social lives of its inhabitants, on the daily lives of the people who live and pass through it. Not only are houses and buildings designed, but their interactions and the spaces that complete them are also organized and planned: parks, streets and avenues, mobility.
The dividing line a good urbanization of a ghetto It is often invisible. And mistakes are paid for later. What works in a rendering sometimes doesn’t work in reality.
Urban planning must also take into account people’s well-being and the physical and psychological effects that city planning has on citizens, which is why it addresses aspects such as noise levels, pollution, lighting and the number of natural areas. or green. the areas.
Then there’s the problem that many times the houses are not finished and all the investments made turned out to be useless. Or they end but they are not written. This has a double effect. The winning bidder “hooks up” to the politician or leader who ran the house. But the market value of that house has a lower value because it is “light on paper”. It has been studied that the act is a fundamental factor: it improves the quality of the housing complex or neighborhood.
But so are shared dreams, Tupac Amarú’s neighborhoods or SISU emerging from governments that ignore the housing problem and outsource into friendly hands. Construction companies that have good relationships with provincial governments or corresponding housing institutions can also be considered helpers.
In 2000, an official assessment clearly highlighted the reality of the official housing plans. It is fully valid: “Public actions regarding housing policy in Argentina have been characterized by instability, partial and, in many cases, inconsistent with other government policies. They have also been institutionally fragmented, unable to address the full extent of the housing problem of low-income groups, promoting the construction of housing at costs incompatible with the ability to pay of the target population, or to the benefit of families with higher income levels . name some of the main problems identified”.
He wrote it Felisa Micelli, as a second-line official during the government of Fernando De la Rúa. Several years before becoming Minister of Economy. Even before, paradoxically, getting involved in the adventure of “Shared Dreams”.
Source: Clarin
