CARACAS.—Venezuela’s Ministry of
Housing and Habitat has promised to hand over
90,000 houses in 2005 as part of an official plan
to reactivate uncompleted projects and develop new
ones.
Housing Minister Julio Montes,
quoted this Thursday by the Venpres news agency,
stated that they hope to complete 49,000 homes and
build a further 40,000.
Montes stated that in order to make
the works more efficient they intend to change the
systems, workforce and contract practices in the
sector and will be convening a large social
movement.
He noted that they are designing the
mechanisms to be used for acquiring land to
urbanize and that details on the scheme to be
applied will be announced next week.
The minister affirmed that the
housing projects include schools, basic services
and others such as telephones, Internet
connections and alternative communication.
