Housing deficit is over a million

[NewsWhore]

Today is World Habitat Day, and it finds the DR with a housing deficit of over a million units. Part of the problem is caused by the poor quality of materials used. While efforts have been made to use part of the money in the state pension funds to support housing construction, Cesarina Fabian, the director of Habitat for Humanity and Julissa Baez, the executive director of the Dominican Cement Producers Association, said that while the problem is very serious, there are some innovative solutions. They told Hoy reporters that 90 families in Haina are building their own housing while learning construction techniques that they can go on to use themselves in the labor market: How to mix cement and install electricity and plumbing.

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