Venezuela’s government announced on Saturday that it will begin delivering the first 200 homes to families affected by the June 24 earthquakes next week, as part of a broader reconstruction plan that officials say will require roughly 25,000 housing units.
National Assembly president and head of the General Staff for Transitional Camps, Jorge Rodríguez, told an international press conference that the Executive is advancing a process of construction, purchase, and completion of residential structures to respond to the emergency. Technical teams are currently evaluating suitable land to build new cities that take into account the country’s geological conditions.
Rodríguez put the initial estimate for the total need at around 25,000 homes, outlining the scale of the master reconstruction plan.
The government’s primary goal in its planning is to completely vacate all educational facilities currently serving as temporary shelters. Civil authorities are coordinating transfers to ensure the school year can begin normally in September.
“The 90 camps that are in schools must be free of people by September – meaning those people will either be in homes we have bought for them, finished for them, or rented for them, or they will be in some type of single-family transitional housing while their permanent home is completed,” Rodríguez detailed.
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