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Cardenal Caro Province governor: Pichilemu Municipality to leave 107
families homeless
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March 29, 2011
Original URL: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Cardenal_Caro_Province_governor:_Pichilemu_Municipality_to_leave_107_families_homeless



One year and one month after the earthquake that affected most of Chile,
and triggered a destructive tsunami throughout its coast, the governor
of the Cardenal Caro Province, Julio Ibarra, told ''El Mercurio Online''
that the Pichilemu Municipality "did not register, nor conducted
inspection visits" to the homes of 107 families affected by the
earthquake. Their registration, and the inspection visits are a needed
step for those families, in order to request housing subsidies given by
the government because of the catastrophe.

"We found a list of persons that had requested inspection visits from
the Public Works Department [of the Pichilemu Municipality], and we were
surprised to notice that that people were not registered in our system,
and that the director of the Public Works Department never visited them.
There is a double fault, an absolute abandonment, because the
applications for the subsidies are now closed," Julio Ibarra said.

"[...] We have received criticism that we have not advanced in terms of
reconstruction, and the responsibility of giving the information [to the
government] is the municipality," Ibarra added. The governor gave the
detailed information of the families to the General Comptroller of the
Republic (Contraloría General de la República), and is requesting
special extension of the deadlines for application to the Ministry of
Housing.

"We are overdue in the issue of housing reconstruction. [...] The
Ministry of Housing did not create a special program for the housing
reconstruction, they are using the same programs implemented in 2004,
[or] 2005, to try to give a solution to the people," Mayor of Pichilemu,
Roberto Córdova, told ''Wikinews'' in November 2010.

==Sources==
* http://www.lasegunda.com/noticias/nacional/2011/03/635994/gobernador-denuncio-negligencia-municipal-que-dejaria-sin-casa-a-mas-de-cien-familias- 
* http://www.emol.com/especiales/2011/nacional/terremoto-un-ano-despues/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=472505 



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