In just under three weeks since its launch, nearly half a million families in five states across Venezuela have answered the national government’s call to register for its massive new public housing program which seeks to build two million new homes by the year 2017.
The program, called Grand Mission “Housing Venezuela”, is the Chavez administration’s answer to the Caribbean nation’s current housing shortage, calculated at over 1.5 million, and marks a firm commitment by the Executive branch to provide access to affordable living space for all the country’s residents.
…The mission’s registration process, which began after the program’s official inauguration on April 30th, has been operating in the capital of Caracas and the coastal states most affected by last year’s torrential rains which left more than 100 thousand people displaced.
…Over four thousand Venezuelans have been employed to enroll heads of households in the mission, collecting information regarding income and family size and utilizing the country’s advanced electronic voting machines to guard against fraud.
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