Chinese company to build new residential zones in Venezuela

[Judi Lynn]

Chinese company to build new residential zones in Venezuela
English.news.cn | 2015-05-05 10:02:18 | Editor: ying

CARACAS, May 4 (Xinhua) -- This May marks a new beginning of China-Venezuela cooperation on affordable housing building projects with new agreements reached between the South American country and a Chinese company on the construction of new integral residential zones, local authorities said on Monday.

Venezuelan officials and representatives of the China International Trust and Investment Company (CITIC) Group have agreed to build integral residential zones in Venezuela's northern state of Aragua.

State Governor Tareck El Aissami said the ambitious plan aims to build urban housing units that will serve as a model for the rest of the nation.

MODEL PROJECT

The vision of building integral residential zones as a model for the nation, Aissami said, was promoted by President Nicolas Maduro, who instructed officials to create integral residential zones equipped with recreational and sports facilities, community centers and others.

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Who wouldn't expect the right-wing sociopathic opposition to try to destroy these dwellings as soon as they are completed? It would be completely predictable.

[Flatulo]

1. If the Great Society housing projects of the '60s are any

indicator, the residents themselves will destroy them. No RW conspiracy needed.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Which people are you mocking, the Democrats responsible for the Great Society efforts,

or the desperately poor, excluded Americans for whom the projects were developed?

Are you mocking Democrats in general, or the poor who lived in housing projects?

Either way, a Democratic message board is clearly NOT the place to ridicule them. You know that.

[Flatulo]

3. Even our Dems have come to realize that building large housing projects just concentrates

poverty and hopelessness into one area. These days the poor are scattered around the community in subsidized housing. The residents pay what they are able and the buildings are the same quality as the rest of the neighborhood.

When I was a kid, we spent a few years in a housing project when dad left us. It was a stinking, miserable cesspool of filth, neglect and decay. The building materials were cheap and toxic and fell apart in just a few months. I remember the window sills were made from styrofoam. Styrofoam. The doors were made from compressed paper and fell off in just a few months. Air conditioning and plumbing never worked, and the shag carpeting came up in clumps.

I can't think of a single intelligent soul alive today who believes that the large housing projects were, in hindsight, a good idea. They've all been torn down or abandoned. Read about the Cabrini Greens Hosuing project in Chicago if you really want to get depressed.

Given the sterling reputation for the quality and safety of Chinese building materials, I feel sorry for anyone who will have to suffer the indignity of living in such places. I hope that, for most of them, it's a temporary helping hand until better shelter can be found.

So, to answer your question, I'm mocking the notion that the government should be in the housing business. I think a much better approach would be to have competent leadership running a robust, diversified economy that allows people to earn a good wage and be self-sufficient. Unfortunately, a majority of Venezuelans earn the minimum wage, so that's not likely to come about soon.