Enade 2018 will be held on October 11 and its central theme will be solving the problem of the housing deficit that is affecting the country.
Enade 2018 is being organized by the Foundation for the Development of Guatemala and will take place on Thursday, October 11 at 2:00 pm, at the Hotel Westin Camino Real Convention Center in Guatemala City.
The construction guild says that if the necessary reforms are not made to promote the construction of housing solutions, in 2020 the deficit will reach 2.1 million.
The Central Housing Association Guatemala Chapter (ACENVI), is proposing a series of legislative reforms to promote housing development and reorganize the country, which currently has a deficit of 1.6 million dwellings.
Renting may thus become an efficient and effective alternative in terms of cost to address the quantitative and qualitative housing deficit that currently affects almost 40 percent of
the region's households.
From the executive summary of IADB "Rental Housing Wanted Policy Options for Latin America and the Caribbean":
El EThe rental market is significant in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region: currently, one out of every five households rents their home, despite the bias of public policy toward homeownership. This proportion has continued to increase over the last 10 years in most countries and is greater in urban areas, especially in the largest cities, where it is more than 40 percent. This is crucial in a region where today the urban population exceeds 80 percent and is expected to increase further in the coming years.
Renting property is an efficient and effective way to solve the problems of the quantitative and qualitative housing deficit that affects nearly 40% of households in the region.
Greater dynamism in the sector could not only increase supply but also help owner-landlords to improve their income.
During the inauguration of " Expo Casa" President Perez Molina announced the provision of 18,000 housing subsidies and another 6,000 for the "piso seguro" (safe floors) project.
The current housing deficit in Guatemala is estimated at 1.7 million, and the plan is to resolve this by Government led construction of houses using the Guatemalan Housing Fund (FOGUAVI), which has a budget of about $58 million a year for real estate projects.
According to the IDB, the percentage of the population living in substandard homes or those who do not have adequate housing, reaches 78% in Nicaragua, 67% in Guatemala, 58% in El Salvador, 57% in Honduras, 39% in Panama and 18% in Costa Rica.
An IDB study indicates that over two thirds of households in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Bolivia and Peru live in poor housing.
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