Housing Minister Catalina Velasco announced the opening of applications for the national government’s new home improvement program, Cambia Mi Casa, starting this Tuesday.
With this program, constructions or improvements are made in, among other things, bathrooms, kitchens, walls, floors and access to water and aqueduct service networks.
“This program is structured in such a way that community organizations, cooperatives, community action councils and other popular and community organizations can participate in the execution of works, strengthening the people’s economy and generating more appropriation by the beneficiary and implementing communities, in fact for President Gustavo Petro, this program is a government commitment to justice,” said Secretary Velasco.
Cambia Mi Casa will make it possible to address the construction shortcomings of housing in the rural sector, in fact, about 85 thousand housing in rural areas will benefit. It strives to achieve the goal of guiding and serving 400 thousand households; a figure that had never been promoted by any national government.
Households can receive a benefit for the improvement of their home of up to 22 SMMLV, depending on the location (rural or urban) and the type of intervention being implemented (local, structural and/or modular). This subsidy can be in addition to the contributions from the municipal and/or departmental order.
The program will use the System for Identification of Potential Beneficiaries of Social Programs (Sisbén IV) as a tool to verify vulnerability in all modalities.
Through the Sisbén database it is possible to evaluate the socio-economic conditions of households. The beneficiaries of Cambia Mi Casa must have a Sisbén score equal to or lower than C18.
Families are not allowed to provide documents to the Department of Housing, as the applications will be submitted through community organizations, territorial entities, or other entities dedicated to implementing home improvements.
The information and requirements are available on the Minvivienda website https://minvivienda.gov.co/ Interested entities or organizations can also access the training schedule offered by the Ministry on the program through this website.
The implementation of Cambia Mi Casa will improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of families who today live in houses with inadequate habitability conditions. This is a powerful tool to overcome poverty and consolidate a country with justice, social justice and total peace.
Three schedules have been defined for you to access this initiative.
Community Management: Convenes popular organizations, entities, businesses, and other stakeholders interested in undertaking home improvements to award family housing grants, whether statewide or urban, after verification and certification of works performed, and prior to compliance with community housing requirements access to the grant.
It is envisaged that this scheme will be implemented by actors of the people’s economy sector, with these organizations being the main executors of the model. Family compensation funds, territorial entities, non-profit organizations and all actors capable of carrying out interventions with their own technical means and resources can also participate.
Association for Non-Profit Entities and Territorial Entities: It will form alliances with entities that have the experience and capacity to carry out housing improvement projects, to finance the implementation of interventions for the target group of the MVCT.
Unlike the community management program, it seeks to sign association agreements that allow the entities, by their very nature, to co-finance with resources from Fonvivienda; however, the execution will be at the head of the entity, company or organization.
Public: Through Fonvivienda and contracting autonomous estates, housing improvements will be tendered and implemented through the award of family grants for rural or urban housing. This scheme allows 100% subsidized interventions to be carried out, or interventions co-financed with resources from the territorial entities, depending on the municipal category.
Source: El heraldo
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