Argentine President Alberto Fernandez inaugurates 100,000th public housing unit since 2019

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In an emotional ceremony in the northern Argentine city of Santiago del Estero, Argentine President Alberto Fernández inaugurated four new public housing developments - including the 100,000th public housing unit completed in his 40 month-old administration.

“It is an immense joy to know that we have handed over the keys to the homes, because it means that they will have a better quality of life,” Santiago del Estero Governor Gerardo Zamora said.

“The fact that we are presenting the 100,000th home is no minor detail - given that public housing works were paralyzed a little over three years ago.”

Under Fernández's predecessor, right-wing President Mauricio Macri, just 14,000 public housing units were completed in his 2015-19 tenure - despite a doubling of the foreign public debt to nearly $200 billion.

The president emphasized the relevance of public works investment in the country's North - long home to some of the highest poverty rates in Argentina.

“The North has (received) 40% of those 100,000 houses,” Fernández noted. “We want an integrated Argentina and we are going to work tirelessly until we reach that goal.”

Public housing developments have become the only realistic way to access proper housing for many working-class and poor Argentines in recent decades.

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Flanked by Argentine Housing Minister Santiago Maggiotti, President Alberto Fernández, and Governor Gerardo Zamora, a young family receives the deed to the 100,000th public housing unit completed under Fernández's 40 month-old administration.

The Procrear subsidized mortgage line, launched in 2012, and Fernández's Own Home program - which builds homes with federal funds but for private ownership - have sought to mitigate the country's estimated 3.5 million-unit housing deficit (20% of the existing total).

But since the late 1970s, declining real wages, the dismantling and privatization of the National Mortgage Bank, the scarcity and cost of mortgages, and skyrocketing rents, have left millions of lower-income Argentine families without access to decent housing.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Beautiful! What an accomplishment, and accomplished with so few tools, after Macri left.

He had so much less to work with than did Macri, of course!

What a life-saver to the little family. It will change everything.

It should be emphasized repeatedly that people remember how Macri and his party trashed the economy and crippled it so severely that President Alberto Fernández had to operate with a severely damaged, nearly destroyed government structure, and was able to achieve miracles just getting it even operational again.

Here's hoping the people won't be so short-sighted they will have already forgotten what has happened to their country during the two Presidencies!

Love the beaming smiles on the couple, and the goofing off of the kid as he strikes the universal kid posture. He could be in any country in the world, probably, and look like that!

Congratulations to President Alberto Fernández, and thankfulness for his never-flagging enthusiasm and commitment. He's light years more civilized than the soulless fascists who are licking their chops, ready to try to steal the country again, in the coming election.

Viva, President Fernández.