Medellin free housing project overtaken by gangsters
An armed group has asserted control in a Medellin public housing project that was recently built for conflict victims and low income families.
An armed group has asserted control in a Medellin public housing project that was recently built for conflict victims and low income families.
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos has finished only 10% of the 75,000 subsidized homes the head of state claims to have constructed, according to the leftist opposition.
Colombia’s housing minister on Tuesday announced the government will invest $583 million for the building of 100.000 homes for low-income families.
Colombia’s new housing minister complained Wednesday about an alleged lack of cooperation of the capital Bogota concerning the building of free homes for the poor.
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.
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…