“We are working in an orderly and planned manner so that the results are efficient,” remarked Mayor Francisco Azcué.
With the presence of Mayor Francisco Azcué, the Municipal Autonomous Housing and Land Institute (INVyTAM) presented the Comprehensive Management Plan for the coming years.
The plan is based on four pillars: Urban Development; Self-Management; Relocation and Property Regularization. The objectives are to re-urbanize and integrate pre-existing neighborhoods; organize and formalize access to urban land; and guarantee access to definitive housing solutions.
“We are working in an orderly and planned manner so that the results are efficient,” affirmed the Mayor, who also highlighted the work carried out by the INVyTAM during this time to reach this first objective, which was to have the necessary information that will allow the established goals to be achieved.
Alejandra Bruno, president of the INVyTAM, pointed out that the Comprehensive Management Plan has four pillars: Urban Development, “which has to do with access to land for middle-income sectors of the population”; the Self-Management Plan, “for popular neighborhoods, for consolidated neighborhoods”; the Relocation Plan, “for vulnerable sectors and cases of extreme vulnerability such as, for example, floods, wetlands, sectors where they cannot be regularized”; and finally, Property Regularization, “with the objective of legalizing the situation of many plots of land in the city.”
Bruno stated that this is the result of a preliminary survey conducted in the first months of the administration, where a diagnosis and a database were established.
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
The objective is to make access to urban land viable for the middle-income sectors of the city. The projects associated with the program in question will refer to unoccupied lots, to be made available by the Institute through different administrative mechanisms. For all projects promoted by the Institute, a mechanism for public dissemination, registration, pre-selection, and public drawing must be implemented for the subsequent awarding to those who are beneficiaries.
The availability of land will be the result of the land bank promoted by the Institute and its corresponding surveying project. At the same time, property regularization processes will be implemented under the responsibility of the same department. For those who are awarded in the framework of the program, a credit line will be established with a dual purpose: Affordability for the target population; Recapitalization and economic sustainability for the development of new projects by the Institute.
In each specific project, the necessary incentives will be sought so that the component of public service provision arises from private investment.
SELF-MANAGEMENT
The objective is to re-urbanize and integrate consolidated popular neighborhoods with socio-housing roots, that is, with at least 8 to 10 years of settlement in the formal urban fabric. The focus of the approach will be on precarious housing that lacks or shows deterioration in any of the following components: wet cores, access, facades, ventilation, etc. Those presenting a situation of irretrievability are excluded from intervention.
For its implementation, the Institute will provide beneficiaries with technical support for carrying out housing improvement works. At the same time, a social building materials warehouse will be available to make access to them viable, implementing an efficient and transparent tracking mechanism. The aim is for the labor to be provided by the beneficiary population, thus promoting the creation of a local employment and cooperation network.
RELOCATION
The objective is to resolve access to the city for families located in spaces with building and environmental risks that are impossible to formalize. The aim will be to relocate informal situations subject to problems present in flood zones, near railway tracks, stream tributaries, etc.
For its execution, the project must contemplate a land bank and its corresponding surveying projects, the provision of public services, and the construction of new functional units in the polygons delimited for this purpose. For the relocated spaces, an occupation and utilization plan must be foreseen that arises from the common interest of society.
For the implementation of this project, public/private articulation will be promoted, and projects will be sought to include the installation of companies and institutions, in order to guarantee an effective economic and social integration of the relocated population.
For all those beneficiaries within the framework of said program, a payment plan will be established for land, housing, and urban environment improvement that is affordable in relation to their economic income, but which implies a contribution from them to the return on investment and the consequent sustainability of public policy.
All relocations carried out within the framework of said program must be resolved within a spatial radius that does not promote uprooting for the population and does not corrupt pre-existing socio-community fabrics. Based on the leading surveys implemented by the Institute, all populations possessing pre-existing constructions must be recognized, as well as the diversity of their uses, to be subsequently recognized in the destination project (churches, businesses, economic activities, housing, mixed-use housing, etc.).
PROPERTY REGULARIZATION
Legal security in the tenure of a property is one of the indispensable components of the right to housing and habitat. The objective of the program is to make agile and clear administrative channels viable in the face of community demand, which favor the property regularization of the city's urban land.
To this end, it becomes essential to interpret the diversity of domains that are presented in relation to the occupation and/or possession of the properties, as well as the characteristics of the parties involved in the demand. In those situations whose domain involves the Municipality and competent authorities, specific projects will be developed within the program that resolve institutional criteria: Constitution of beneficiaries; Awarding of properties; Payment plans that address a double standard: affordability for beneficiary family groups and recapitalization for the Institute.
Regarding the situations contemplated within the program, at least the following are included: Informal occupations on privately owned properties under social interest (in accordance with what is established by RENABAP); Informal occupations on publicly owned properties; Planned projections to occupy formally under the provision of public properties (Urban Development Program).
Within the framework of the property regularization program, the relevant legal and surveying processes must be facilitated, and the Institute may enter into professional agreements for this purpose. Said action will focus on family groups whose economic income is not sufficient in accordance with what is established by the Total Basic Basket (CBT, INDEC).
Regarding the preparation of payment plans, the respective valuations of the projects must be derived from the cross-referencing of the following general criteria: zoning of the polygon to be regularized, target beneficiary population, and characteristics of the general project.
Every property regularization process and corresponding preparation of a payment plan will be initiated exclusively after the results provided by the socio-economic reports implemented by the Community Directorate.
Authorities from the Autonomous Institute of Planning and Housing (IAPV), the Secretariat of Urban Development, and council members were part of the presentation.
With the presence of Mayor Francisco Azcué, the Municipal Autonomous Housing and Land Institute (INVyTAM) presented the Comprehensive Management Plan for the coming years.
The plan is based on four pillars: Urban Development; Self-Management; Relocation and Property Regularization. The objectives are to re-urbanize and integrate pre-existing neighborhoods; organize and formalize access to urban land; and guarantee access to definitive housing solutions.
“We are working in an orderly and planned manner so that the results are efficient,” affirmed the Mayor, who also highlighted the work carried out by the INVyTAM during this time to reach this first objective, which was to have the necessary information that will allow the established goals to be achieved.
Alejandra Bruno, president of the INVyTAM, pointed out that the Comprehensive Management Plan has four pillars: Urban Development, “which has to do with access to land for middle-income sectors of the population”; the Self-Management Plan, “for popular neighborhoods, for consolidated neighborhoods”; the Relocation Plan, “for vulnerable sectors and cases of extreme vulnerability such as, for example, floods, wetlands, sectors where they cannot be regularized”; and finally, Property Regularization, “with the objective of legalizing the situation of many plots of land in the city.”
Bruno stated that this is the result of a preliminary survey conducted in the first months of the administration, where a diagnosis and a database were established.
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
The objective is to make access to urban land viable for the middle-income sectors of the city. The projects associated with the program in question will refer to unoccupied lots, to be made available by the Institute through different administrative mechanisms. For all projects promoted by the Institute, a mechanism for public dissemination, registration, pre-selection, and public drawing must be implemented for the subsequent awarding to those who are beneficiaries.
The availability of land will be the result of the land bank promoted by the Institute and its corresponding surveying project. At the same time, property regularization processes will be implemented under the responsibility of the same department. For those who are awarded in the framework of the program, a credit line will be established with a dual purpose: Affordability for the target population; Recapitalization and economic sustainability for the development of new projects by the Institute.
In each specific project, the necessary incentives will be sought so that the component of public service provision arises from private investment.
SELF-MANAGEMENT
The objective is to re-urbanize and integrate consolidated popular neighborhoods with socio-housing roots, that is, with at least 8 to 10 years of settlement in the formal urban fabric. The focus of the approach will be on precarious housing that lacks or shows deterioration in any of the following components: wet cores, access, facades, ventilation, etc. Those presenting a situation of irretrievability are excluded from intervention.
For its implementation, the Institute will provide beneficiaries with technical support for carrying out housing improvement works. At the same time, a social building materials warehouse will be available to make access to them viable, implementing an efficient and transparent tracking mechanism. The aim is for the labor to be provided by the beneficiary population, thus promoting the creation of a local employment and cooperation network.
RELOCATION
The objective is to resolve access to the city for families located in spaces with building and environmental risks that are impossible to formalize. The aim will be to relocate informal situations subject to problems present in flood zones, near railway tracks, stream tributaries, etc.
For its execution, the project must contemplate a land bank and its corresponding surveying projects, the provision of public services, and the construction of new functional units in the polygons delimited for this purpose. For the relocated spaces, an occupation and utilization plan must be foreseen that arises from the common interest of society.
For the implementation of this project, public/private articulation will be promoted, and projects will be sought to include the installation of companies and institutions, in order to guarantee an effective economic and social integration of the relocated population.
For all those beneficiaries within the framework of said program, a payment plan will be established for land, housing, and urban environment improvement that is affordable in relation to their economic income, but which implies a contribution from them to the return on investment and the consequent sustainability of public policy.
All relocations carried out within the framework of said program must be resolved within a spatial radius that does not promote uprooting for the population and does not corrupt pre-existing socio-community fabrics. Based on the leading surveys implemented by the Institute, all populations possessing pre-existing constructions must be recognized, as well as the diversity of their uses, to be subsequently recognized in the destination project (churches, businesses, economic activities, housing, mixed-use housing, etc.).
PROPERTY REGULARIZATION
Legal security in the tenure of a property is one of the indispensable components of the right to housing and habitat. The objective of the program is to make agile and clear administrative channels viable in the face of community demand, which favor the property regularization of the city's urban land.
To this end, it becomes essential to interpret the diversity of domains that are presented in relation to the occupation and/or possession of the properties, as well as the characteristics of the parties involved in the demand. In those situations whose domain involves the Municipality and competent authorities, specific projects will be developed within the program that resolve institutional criteria: Constitution of beneficiaries; Awarding of properties; Payment plans that address a double standard: affordability for beneficiary family groups and recapitalization for the Institute.
Regarding the situations contemplated within the program, at least the following are included: Informal occupations on privately owned properties under social interest (in accordance with what is established by RENABAP); Informal occupations on publicly owned properties; Planned projections to occupy formally under the provision of public properties (Urban Development Program).
Within the framework of the property regularization program, the relevant legal and surveying processes must be facilitated, and the Institute may enter into professional agreements for this purpose. Said action will focus on family groups whose economic income is not sufficient in accordance with what is established by the Total Basic Basket (CBT, INDEC).
Regarding the preparation of payment plans, the respective valuations of the projects must be derived from the cross-referencing of the following general criteria: zoning of the polygon to be regularized, target beneficiary population, and characteristics of the general project.
Every property regularization process and corresponding preparation of a payment plan will be initiated exclusively after the results provided by the socio-economic reports implemented by the Community Directorate.
Authorities from the Autonomous Institute of Planning and Housing (IAPV), the Secretariat of Urban Development, and council members were part of the presentation.