Who can believe that Chavez will build 913 homes per day?

[naaman fletcher]

This past Sunday, Chavez promised to build two million homes over the next six years, a lie that is pathetically self evident.

Chavez' promise is even more outrageous when we stop to think that during this long, 12-year period that he has sat in Miraflores, the average number of houses built per year has been only 24,300, or some 300,000 in all. This is the worst performance in the area of housing in all Venezuela's democratic history, made even worse by the fact that he is the President who has been in office for the longest period over the past 70 years.

Who, then, can believe that Chavez will be building 913 homes per day? Or that this government will be able to build 578 12-storey buildings, with four apartments per floor, every month?

To begin with, Venezuela lacks the wherewithal to achieve this housing feat. Home construction costs approximately Bs.F.5,000 per square meter, including utilities and land development. In other words this would require, at the very least, an investment of Bs.F.500 billion, the equivalent of 2.5 times the central government's annual budget.

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=101074

Stupid right-wingers and their facts and figures. more at link.

[social_critic]

1. Chavez can do it, yes he can can.

It's all a matter of semantics and mathematics, my friend. Chavez never defined the house size. I think the key is to build 3 meter by 3 meter huts (that's 10 ft by 10 ft huts for US-educated DU'ers). The huts can be imported from China, where they'll be made of plastic and wood. The chinese are very efficient at this type of fabrication, and can turn out a gazillion huts like this per month.

The little cube-like thingies can be made of colorful shades of red, yellow, and green. Piles of colorful cubes can be stacked in La Carlota, Fuerte Tiuna, and the two golf courses. I worked out a five high stacking sequence will allow a total of 569,340 units to be built and installed.

If the housing project is contracted from Cuba, and Cubans do the installation then Cuba can turn a tidy profit and the total price will be less than $100 million US. And this can be financed by offering 20,000 barrels per day to China, and 20,000 barrels per day to Cuba. Which means the project won't cost anything before the 2012 elections roll around. And the idea, my friend, is to make sure Chavez goes for Castro's record and stays in power for at least 50 years.

[joshcryer]

2. Have any more info about these huts you're talking about?

And what is the living condition of current Venezuelans, would these huts be an improvement upon their conditions?