Many of these properties are waiting for better times in the real estate market, while the housing deficit and urban speculation grows deepens inequality in cities.
This is recorded by the newspaper, which accounts for the debate on empty homes in Parliament, based on three bills presented by the Frente Amplio.
It is a problem of long data, structural and that implies great contradictions, according to opinions collected by the source, which speak of “residential exclusion.”
“Urban reality, not only in Montevideo but also in many cities of the interior, shows that there are thousands of empty, upholstered housing, that are not located in the market and generate problems in the neighborhoods.”
It is the opinion of the Frontamplista Senator and former Secretary General of the Uruguayan Federation of Housing Cooperatives for Mutual Aid, Gustavo González.
He said that from Parliament a battery of bills is promoted so that the State can recover those properties and allocate them to housing policies.
-For the doctor in architecture and university professor, Gonzalo Bustillo, the situation is “contrary” to a “sustainable city” project.
He pointed out that the problem of homeless people in Montevideo “is one of the most serious expressions of residential exclusion that Uruguay knows today.”
According to an investigation of the Faculty of Architecture, Montevideo has five thousand homeless, of which 1,500 are outdoors and about three thousand 500 within shelters.
For its part, the architect and master in territorial planning, Stella Zuccolini, said that the phenomenon of homeless is related to empty homes, but considered that it is not the “definitive solution.”
“Giving housing is not enough if the most complex social problems that lead to that situation are not addressed,” he said and claimed an interministerial approach to address this social scourge.
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