Venezuela Housing Crisis: Hugo Chavez Struggles With Severe Affordable Housing Shortage
Venezuela Housing Crisis: Hugo Chavez Struggles With Severe Affordable Housing Shortage Venezuela Housing Crisis: Hugo Chavez Struggles With Severe Affordable Housing Shortage moladi Building Construction Technology - solution to build more homes faster better for less - creating employment CARACAS, Venezuela -- For more than a year, thousands of Venezuelans have been living in disaster shelters, sleeping in bunks and sharing bathrooms. Their long wait for government homes shows how far President Hugo Chavez still has to go to fulfill his promises of aid for the poor after nearly 13 years in office. Opposition politicians estimate that more than 30,000 people remain in the shelters waiting for Chavez to deliver. And yet, his inability to keep such grand promises doesn't seem to be a serious handicap as he seeks re-election next year. "I trust Chavez will get us into an apartment. I just don't know when that could occur, and waiting so long is becoming m