HPHA has recently bought a building in La Boca in order to get the “Recycling Urban Homes” program off the ground. With a studio-construction company already chosen to manage the project, the only step left is to start the construction!
“Recycling Urban Homes” represents an important advancement in HPHA’s work in the city of Buenos Aires. According to the United Nations, the human right to live in an adequate house means having access to a safe place to be warm, and having adequate space, security, illumination and ventilation, basic infrastructure and adequate resources with basic services, all of this at a reasonable cost”. Clearly, in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, as well as in other parts of the country, this human right is not respected.
The panorama that unfolds before our eyes, day by day, is hundreds of people living in precarious shacks made out of corrugated iron and cardboard, houses taken by groups of families living in overcrowded conditions, slums growing to the sky, people living in unacceptable conditions in hotels, guest houses and tenement houses, and hundreds living on the streets.
In addition to the physical conditions, there exists lack of hygiene, security and privacy, and these populations are excluded, as the city prefers to hide behind facades of antique buildings which are seriously deteriorated. With the “Recycling Urban Homes” project HPHA tries to transform these buildings into simple, safe, and healthy homes.
“Recycling Urban Homes” represents an important advancement in HPHA’s work in the city of Buenos Aires. According to the United Nations, the human right to live in an adequate house means having access to a safe place to be warm, and having adequate space, security, illumination and ventilation, basic infrastructure and adequate resources with basic services, all of this at a reasonable cost”. Clearly, in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, as well as in other parts of the country, this human right is not respected.
The panorama that unfolds before our eyes, day by day, is hundreds of people living in precarious shacks made out of corrugated iron and cardboard, houses taken by groups of families living in overcrowded conditions, slums growing to the sky, people living in unacceptable conditions in hotels, guest houses and tenement houses, and hundreds living on the streets.
In addition to the physical conditions, there exists lack of hygiene, security and privacy, and these populations are excluded, as the city prefers to hide behind facades of antique buildings which are seriously deteriorated. With the “Recycling Urban Homes” project HPHA tries to transform these buildings into simple, safe, and healthy homes.
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