President Alberto Fernández delivered this Thursday the 90,000 home of his management in the Salta town of La Pomawhere he insisted on the need to build a “federal” country and asked to get away from the “hub of politics” to listen to “the whisper of the people.”
At more than 3000 meters high above sea level, the head of state led the act of adjudication of 15 houses of the Habitar Comunidad program, created to improve access to housing for the rural population and indigenous peoples, according to official sources.
Accompanied by Governor Gustavo SáenzFernández recalled that he is “a porteño who loves his city” but, in addition, he is “the son of a Riojan who knows the hardships” of the North, and that his goal is that “every Argentine find happiness where was born”.
The activity was carried out with an imposing frame of the hills that are part of the Calchaquíes Valleys and Eulogia Tapia, a resident of the place immortalized in the verses of the zamba “La Pomeña”, participated in the song.
Tapia, after thanking Fernández for his presence, dedicated a copla in his honor, while the President said that it was a dream for him to be able to be in that place. Knowing that it is first head of state to arrive at the site, He added: “I’m sorry for what the previous ones missed out on.”
“We have to be everywhere, we have to be supportivewe have to understand that it is much easier to achieve the objectives if we work together, if we stop the riot of politics and listen to the whisper of our people,” said the head of state.
For his part, Sáenz thanked Fernández for visiting the place and the national government team for “fulfilling the dream of those fifteen families” who were “waiting for a long time.”
The governor said that there is still “Argentina full of privileges and subsidies that are in the center of the country and Argentina full of needs and injustices that is the north, deep and forgotten of the homeland”.
“I ask you, Mr. President, to let us continue working to reverse these asymmetries, in reversing those injustices, for which not only will each of the people of Salta, Catamarca, Jujeños and Tucumans thank you, but also history”, he pointed out.
To its turn, the Minister of Territorial Development, Santiago Maggiotireiterated that while the country is always the same, what changes are the “government priorities” and that while some “bet on financial timba”, the one led by Alberto Fernández “bets on equal opportunities for all the Argentines”.
“Our Government works so that all Argentines are first-class citizens and that there is only one class of men and one class of Argentines,” the minister concluded.
It is a joy to announce that today we will deliver the first houses of the Program #HabitarComunidad, designed for rural communities and indigenous peoples. It will be in the Salta town of La Poma, located 3,000 meters above sea level?️
Learn more about this program pic.twitter.com/DmjE6clVvq
—Santiago Maggiotti (@smaggiotti) March 2, 2023
The works
In La Poma, in the north of the Calchaquíes Valleys, the first 15 Habitar Comunidad homes were deliveredout of a total of 45 in execution in Salta, with an investment of more than 114 million pesos.
These are the first houses delivered in the country by this Program created in 2021 for community strengthening and rooting of rural populations and indigenous peoples, through access to housing and a decent environmentally sustainable habitat.
With an investment of more than 2,870 million pesosHabitar Comunidad currently has 436 homes under construction in 24 projects in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chaco, Chubut, Entre Ríos, Formosa, Jujuy, La Rioja, Misiones, Neuquén, Salta, Santiago del Estero and Tucumán.
In total, in the province of Salta there are so far 8,067 housing solutions delivered and in execution by the current national government, with an investment of 64,285 million pesos.
Of this total, 3,532 housing solutions have already been delivered.while another 4,520 are underway.
The Secretary of Habitat, @micavillaverd, accompanied by local authorities, toured the works that are being carried out in Salta, with national financing. In Seclantás, with an investment of almost $161 million, 25 homes are being built through the Habitar Comunidad Program. pic.twitter.com/QgnAlWThG8
— Ministry of Territorial Development and Habitat (@MinHabitatAR) March 2, 2023
