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.
A Bogota judge has ordered the immediate suspension of a plan to construct social housing projects in rich neighborhoods, proposed by Mayor Gustavo Petro to promote social integration.
Housing prices in Colombia rose approximately 9.47% on average in 2014, according to the country’s statistics agency.
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.
A Bogota attorney on Monday said he will sue the city’s mayor over plans to build homes for poor people in some of the capital’s most expensive neighborhoods.
Colombia’s capital Bogota is planning to carry out social housing projects in some of the city’s most expensive neighborhood in an attempt to curb social and economic segregation, the administration announced…
Colombia’s Housing Minister has recognized that there is no money for subsidized housing or aqueducts with the ministry in need of more than $5 billion for just one project, reported Caracol…
Colombia’s housing minister has delivered a bill to Congress that will ensure buildings have the highest quality standards to prevent tragedies similar to that which Medellin has recently experienced, reported…
A range of Medellin construction projects using “hyper optimization” – a fast, cheap and resource efficient way of building assembly – have almost all recently had serious quality problems leading…