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was for the construction of 743 houses in the neighborhood of Las Margaritas. The project is from 2006 and the deadline stipulated that work would be completed in one year, but homes are still uninhabitable. The lack of information preawarded. The absence of communication from local government. The contradictions between government agencies
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Frangos And Garretts Popcorn
By: Ezequiel Vázquez
- Sorry to make you go, but that's all I have.
Upon entering the house understands what meant. It is divided inside with pieces of styrofoam, and no more than two rooms. Five people living there. A Monica Milesi you ashamed of being poor and not hidden, but you'll note the desperation in her eyes. She is one of the 703 people who were preawarded to have your home in the suburb of Florencio Varela Las Margaritas, but ignores, like everyone, when the will. The municipality deliberately failed to provide information to prospective owners about the time that had to finish the houses, which consisted of twelve months, and they are still waiting, wrapped in a capital ignorance and apathy which were brought by the real culprits. Those who had dwellings have been completed for more than two years.
An official with the Ministry of Federal Planning in direct contact with Julio De Vido, portfolio holder, said that failure to respond to the certainty that the Government had provided community about the impossibility of complete works in a timely manner. "Among the competitive bidding and when the works start, which was worth one peso rose to be worth two, for inflation. So before beginning work and know that the funds do not reach ", he said. however, argued that the order is like starting work. "Once that money spent, the company sends a notice to the Ministry of Planning consists of a price redetermination, asking the agency to approve sending more funds. Usually, this process stops everything, "he said. The construction company that won the bid and confirmed it Bricons SA this mechanism, but denied that the works had been arrested at some point. The reality, as always, is responsible to refute the words.
The term contradictions
Based on interviews with between ten and fifteen of the pre-granted, it was found that none knew the period of work. Moreover, the other still do not know. "I have no house, which is why I personally went to City Hall to explain to me why the delay, because I need it. I never gave a specific answer or had the delicacy to call me to explain anything, "said Dora Aimone, preawarded No. 73 and DNI 14,390,097. At the same
online, Claudia Baraldo (No. 274, DNI 21990146) extends: "I never knew anything about the period of work. The social worker came to when I preawarded, but everything was there. I never again had contact with anyone from the City. "
never got answers questions of any responsible government agencies. Since the municipal government began to hold meetings with some preawarded, where they are told what house they live and what apple belongs. But this venture entails serious flaws: the main one is to continue ignoring the deadline of the works and the reasons for the eternal delay.
The contradictions in the versions of the different sectors involved are impressive. A preawarded who participated in a "workshop of integration" (euphemism they use from the municipality to call meetings) was that "a woman called María Rosa (Tedesco, director of Ownership Regularization area district) said they were going to finish within three months to one year. " For his part, Secretary of Public Works communal Vanrell Thomas said that the period shall not extend beyond the end of 2009.
spokesman construction company, in turn, set the date for completion by March 2010, "if all goes well." And from the Institute of Housing Ministry of Infrastructure of the province do not know directly. "The date for completion of the works is unknown," simply said the architect Joseph Collar, a member of the Institute Works Department on the established time. Voices so distinct, interconnected by the project of Las Margaritas are a dual claim: first, lack of communication between the three levels of government responsible. Furthermore, lack of accountability to the people waiting for their homes.
inflated numbers
Significantly official numbers about the status of the work. According to figures provided by the Institute Provincial Housing, the physical progress as of April was 90 percent. The Federal Planning Ministry, meanwhile, states that the works in Las Margaritas, to December 31, 2008, have a state of physical progress of between 86.5 and 89.4 percent. However, many of the houses that are located at the bottom of the complex without plaster, and even roof vents, and around the perimeter of the houses are located there is no pavement, as he said Vanrell, will be made when habitation. Will it mark all those missing the modest 10 per cent, or just the figures are "inflated" to justify the use of funds?
city government failed even to such data, and a statement that the signing of Silvana Santinon, area director of Housing and Urban Development in the district, said they do not have any record of the work, even the tender documents, found at the Institute of Housing. It is the less strange this information as Bricons SA spokesman had pointed to the District Municipality as the place were the records.
While the facts show that the irregularities in the process are vast and the lack of information is proverbial preawarded, Vanrell said otherwise. "Communication with the preawarded is permanent. We have their data base and we are constantly informed of the progress of how you build. It is also round, they call by phone and online, "he said, as opposed to the versions of those assigned to inhabit the houses.
The construction site there are three billboards with the data on the number of housing units to be held, the names of the various governmental agencies with jurisdiction over the project, the exact amounts of each building and a striking black paint stain repeats. In the same place in each of the three signs and a common goal: closing the period of the work.
At the moment preawarded continue expecting a baby. Their realities are forced to maintain and not to abandon the hope of home ownership. Milesi Monica will continue to face the social weaknesses, with her husband and one child suffering from various degrees of disability, as usual: with the hard feelings it causes its economy, but also with the lack of information about the day will have its roof.
- we have to wait - say, by way of farewell. The Municipality never heard or give any information. I'm ashamed to be poor and not hidden, perhaps because they know that the real shame should feel responsible for that, so far, can not live your own home.
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