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Social Rent NOW is a Hábitat para la Humanidad Argentina awareness campaign designed to raise awareness about the problem of lack of access to formal rent. For almost 15 years, we have been addressing the rent problem of people living in “conventillos”, tenements and boarding houses on the south side of the city of BuenosLeer Más...

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At the end of August, and as part of a joint action, sanitary repairs for 128 families and three community centers were completed in different neighborhoods of Pilar. Thanks to this joint action, which included the support of Whirlpool, Habitat for Humanity Argentina and local organizations in coordination with the municipality, it was possible toLeer Más...

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On July 5 we met with members of the Deliberative Council of Bahía Blanca. We participated in a meeting with the Public Works, Urbanization and Housing Commission to request the declaration of social interest housing for the families of El Saladero. This would be a fundamental step that facilitates the process for obtaining the SocialLeer Más...

In the Saladero neighborhood of Ingeniero White, Bahía Blanca, we are carrying out, together with the White Trabaja Cooperative, an Early Works Project (“POT” for its acronym in Spanish) that will leave intra-domiciliary connections for running water, sidewalks and trees. It is financed by the Socio-Urban Integration Secretariat of the Ministry of Social Development ofLeer Más...

With the support of P&G, we adapted and incorporated the menstrual management approach to the sanitary repair project, understanding the need to integrate particular issues from a gender perspective into infrastructure works, as well as provide tools and enable access to information. Habitat for Humanity Argentina and P&G joined forces to work on a subjectLeer Más...

Access to rent is access to housing Given the public debate on rent and the reform of Law 27,551, sanctioned in 2020, it is necessary to mention a component of the norm that had little importance but is still essential to address: social rent. The aforementioned Rental Law creates, in its Art. 17, “the NationalLeer Más...

After a long suspension of activities due to the health crisis, we returned in June with corporate volunteering sessions with Bloomberg workers. The brigades are one of the best-known traditions of Habitat for Humanity around the world. They are volunteer days where companies, organizations, churches, put themselves at the service of a family to improveLeer Más...

In Argentina, the largest percentage of families residing in popular neighborhoods are part of the informal housing market. The self-construction of houses becomes a long process of decades in which resources must be financed and managed through scarce means and without specific knowledge. In response to the lack of concrete information on the self-construction processesLeer Más...