The Las Condes social building located in the Rotonda Atenaswith which the Former mayor Joaquín Lavín promised to provide a housing solution to the low-income people of that commune, keeps adding problems after the storm passed through Santiago.
First there were delays in delivery which made Lavín transfer the project to the current mayor Daniela Peñaloza, then leaks from pipesmoisture buildup and other construction problems.
Now, there were blown-off roofs, leaks and some flooding. products of the wind and rain that were strongly felt this Thursday in the Metropolitan Region.
Even The elevators to go up to the 15 floors of this building were unusableadding more and more problems for the residents who still remain, since many decided to leave.
“The magnitude of the structural problems began to become evident with the rains that hit the capital and amounted to nearly 70 millimeters.which exacerbated a widespread water leak in the buildings that included elevators, common spaces, residential floors and thermopane windows, which caused them to not close completely, exposing families to low temperatures“, reported Third about.
In that sense, Councilor Catalina San Martín He assured the aforementioned media that “I have 45 apartments registered (out of 85), where observations were submitted with problems in their homes. People have been trapped in the elevator and it turns out that the elevator buttons are bad“As a municipality it seems that we are playing with the neighbors’ dreams.”
Faced with this serious situation that affects the most vulnerable families living in Las Condes, the Municipality assured that “the social integration departments of Rotonda Atenas are a project that is assumed from a previous administration and that it was in full swing.”
“As a municipality, we are working to solve the problems that have arisen in the project. In that sense, it must be clarified that the building does not have structural problemseven though situations have arisen in some departments and in common spaces,” they closed.
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