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Pablo Jofré Leal
Adital – Article 1: New Housing Policy. Demand for decent housing
The scandal unleashed by the so-called Chubi houses and the tiny dwellings, determined that the government of the President Michelle Bachelet looked to find a new Housing Policy for the Improvement of Quality and Social Integration, to shed the light of change on the situation.
More than a month passed from the television report that denounced the existence of social “houses” of 12 square meters in Malloa and of 9 meters in Machalí, the chilean society began to shake off the lethargy of seeing, knowing and accepting the construction of these dwellings that fail to satisfy the needs of chileans of scant resources, for which “one’s own house” has eluded this important point of the citizen’s rights. The embarrassment in front of works that demean citizens, was the rubric for a vastly delayed decision: to generate a new policy that provides poorer Chileans with housing that is, above all, decent and it is this which has stood out from this presidential decision.