Buenos Aires Today’s headlines in the Nacion indicate that the government announced a brand-new program to assist renters to become first time homeowners. Essentially, the Argentina government is trying to create a secondary market to encourage homeownership. The early outlines are interesting. A renter has to prove that they have successfully paid rent for 12 …
Month: August 2006
Voter Mischief
Buenos Aires In Chile one of the questions we discussed at length was the problem of voter registration in the barrios created by la toma. In the post-dictatorship era voluntary registration has been complicated and led, not surprisingly to those of us from the United States, to declining percentages of registration and participation. This problem …
Sprawl City?
Santiago Ana Sugranyas, our friend from Habitat International Coalition, which we had gotten to know at the World Urban Forum this summer in Vancouver, was gracious enough to invite us to dinner at the apartment she and her husband shared in the Provencia neighborhood east of Santiago’s center. Her husband is Alberto Rodriguez, director of …