Medellin free housing project overtaken by gangsters
An armed group has asserted control in a Medellin public housing project that was recently built...
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Santos lying about social housing projects: Colombia opposition
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos has finished only 10% of the 75,000 subsidized homes the...
Colombia approves $583M for low-income housing
Colombia’s housing minister on Tuesday announced the government will invest $583 million for...
National government clashes with Bogota over free housing project
Colombia’s new housing minister complained Wednesday about an alleged lack of cooperation of...
Santos to spend night in ‘free housing’ apartment
President Juan Manuel Santos will spend his Friday night in one of the apartments destined for Colombia’s poorest citizens as part of the government’s free housing initiative. In 2012 the Santos government committed to the...
Colombia’s president lays foundation for free homes in south
Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos laid the first foundation stone Wednesday of what will be 642 free houses in the municipality of Ipiales in the troubled southwestern Nariño department. “Here in Nariño there...
