IVC is responsible for carrying out the housing policy of the City of Buenos Aires. It seeks to solve housing deficit and its adjacent problems, while also aims to guarantee access to decent housing. Seven of the most challenging and strategic projects for the urban and social integration of the City of Buenos Aires correspond to city’s slums: Rodrigo Bueno (996 families); Barrio 20 (9.200 families); Fraga (1.402 families); Lamadrid (1.402 families); Camino de Sirga (2.500 families); 1-11-14 (13.000 families). IVC works with and for the families of the city, with the intention of enhancing human development and improving the quality of life of all our city neighbors. Along with Habitat III objectives, the IVC seeks to reach human settlements so more people can enjoy equal rights and opportunities, by encouraging participation, promoting civic collaboration and generating a sense of belonging and ownership around their space.
Its mission includes:
Promoting the right to a habitat.
Ensuring access to houses for all citizens.
Reducing the deficit of housing, community equipment, infrastructure and services.
Ensuring the land-ownership regularization of residential solutions provided.
Removing barriers to access credits
IVC works mainly on the empowerment of neighbors through the land ownership regularization while strongly supporting community culture among the neighborhoods. Its work is projected through 3 programs:
1. Individual Credits Law 341: Aimed for households in critical housing situation, in state of emergency.
2. Primera Casa B.A. (First House BA): Housing solutions of a permanent nature that make it possible to acquire a home through Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires. The selection of candidates for this program is made through a scoring system, which considers the income, family, and housing situation of the applicant and his / her family group.
3. Alquilar se Puede (Renting is possible): A joint program between IVC and Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires (Bank of the City of Buenos Aires) that provides a guarantee for tenants provided by the BCBA, as a solution for those who do not have a property to use as collateral. The program includes initial costs through a subsidized rate credit.
The IVC implements a co-participative work policy with the neighbors through management tables where a body of neighbor delegates, the City General Defender, and the organizations behind each project, intervene jointly to detail the processes for the re-urbanization of the all the mentioned neighborhoods. More than 1.200 people work to promote a management model of self-sustaining complexes, which do not require permanent state intervention for maintenance, where each neighbor owns their home and there are consortiums in operation that guarantee a good administration of the Complex.