Venezuelan President Sets Legal Framework for Shared “Multifamily Property�

[The Vegan Marxist]

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is expected to launch the
Grand Venezuelan Housing Mission on 12 April 2012 (Archive).

Venezuelan President Sets Legal Framework for Shared “Multifamily Property”
By JUAN REARDON – VENEZUELANALYSIS.COM

Mérida, April 8th 2011 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – On Wednesday Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez used his legislative authority to decree a new property rights framework for the pending Grand Venezuela Housing Mission, expected to be launched early next week.

Establishing “multifamily property” to classify shared property within government-provided housing, the new law stipulates the formation of elected committees of residents to collectively manage “problems that might affect the community” in shared spaces such as sport and recreation facilities and green areas.

As the government prepares for the 12 April 2011 launch of Grand Venezuela Housing Mission, Chávez’s presidential decree established a series of rights and responsibilities for residents with access to “multifamily property,” including the “social control” of these properties by a “Multifamily Management Committee.”

While Article 3 of the new law stipulates that individual owners of government-provided housing maintain their existing rights to sell or separate themselves from said property, Article 4 establishes the “multifamily property” framework for shared spaces associated with housing units granted to families as part of the upcoming Bicentennial Housing Mission.

Article 9 guarantees each family the right to “use and enjoy” their own particular “family property (home or apartment),” while Article 10 defines shared rights to “multifamily property” as “areas of collective use and enjoyment” by the entirety of families living together. These collective “multifamily” properties include green spaces and gardens, sport and recreation facilities, meeting spaces, walkways, and stairways, among others. .

As stipulated in Article 15, each family within a given multifamily housing unit is guaranteed one vote with which to elect representatives to a “Multifamily Management Committee.” This committee is responsible for analyzing all problems that affect the collective’s use of shared spaces, and has the legal authority to analyze and decide upon how to resolve said problems.

In addition, Article 18 of the law commits the national government to taking social programs, food distribution systems, child-care facilities, public schools and primary health care centers, among other social services, to on-site facilities within “multifamily properties” so long as the conditions permit it.

Published on 6 April 2011 in the government’s Gaceta Oficial, the 21 article decree is one of several laws passed by the president using an enabling law granted to him by Venezuela’s outgoing national assembly in late December, 2010.

According to Venezuelan daily Correo del Orinoco, Venezuela’s executive branch intends to construct two million quality housing units during the 2011 – 2017 period as part of the Grand Venezuela Housing Mission.

http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/6122

[The Vegan Marxist]

Why is there a social construct pinned to the side of the building?

Just to look good picture wise for the opening of such I guess. Bit irrelevant to the social-program itself anyways.

[AmericanSocialist]

This is great. I am sure anti Chavites will be on the thread soon. Anyways this is a great project, I hope it will be successful.

[Black Sheep]

I'm a little confused.

The law places goverment-built house complexes under the collective management of their residents?

[Red_Xan]

This sounds great. I only hope that this will not create a gap between the workers in the new housing, and those able to have their own houses. A divided proletariat will not help Venezuela.

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

This sounds great. I only hope that this will not create a gap between the workers in the new housing, and those able to have their own houses. A divided proletariat will not help Venezuela.

Home-ownership is bourgeois.

[The Vegan Marxist]

How about we expropriate all the houses in the name of the proletariat and take chavez and all his class collaborators and do to them what we did to the sadistic nuns and priests in spain?

TVM, stop cheerleading a liberal capitalist who controls a state.

Ohhh...you anarchists! ;)

[RadioRaheem84]

How about we expropriate all the houses in the name of the proletariat and take chavez and all his class collaborators and do to them what we did to the sadistic nuns and priests in spain?

TVM, stop cheerleading a liberal capitalist who controls a state.

A lot of anarchists in here talk about the "lesser of two evils" (not pointing fingers at you) but for some reason won't even acknowledge the real difference between Chavez and the opposition. Instead it's all "liberal" capitalism.

You would be head over heels for a Chavez-like administration in the US if it were possible as he would represent a real lesser of two evils difference.

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

A lot of anarchists in here talk about the "lesser of two evils" (not pointing fingers at you) but for some reason won't even acknowledge the real difference between Chavez and the opposition. Instead it's all "liberal" capitalism.

You would be head over heels for a Chavez-like administration in the US if it were possible as he would represent a real lesser of two evils difference.

You mean something like CHOMSKY FOR PRESIDENT? :cool:

[The Vegan Marxist]

You mean something like CHOMSKY FOR PRESIDENT? :cool:

Chomsky would/is considered a "liberal" by many anarchists. Mostly because he see's the state under a Marxist concept, rather than an anarchist one.

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

Chomsky would/is considered a "liberal" by many anarchists. Mostly because he see's the state under a Marxist concept, rather than an anarchist one.

I was thinking of the NGNM-type, anarchist within citation marks making excuses for Democrats and praising U.S. national heroes, obsessing about 'enlightenment values' and so on.

[Tim Finnegan]

This sounds great. I only hope that this will not create a gap between the workers in the new housing, and those able to have their own houses. A divided proletariat will not help Venezuela.
I doubt that many Venezuelan workers are likely to be even potential home-owners; proletarian property-ownership, even the desperate, heavily mortgaged kind we get today, is an exception to the historical rule. The sort of mass-ownership we see today is inevitably the product of conciousness development by the bourgeoisie an ideological tool, specifically, as the material basis for the construction of a false "majority middle class", something which the Venezuelan bourgeois is not really capable of pursuing. This sort of thing will be a major step-up for most Venezuelan workers.

[pranabjyoti]

Home-ownership is bourgeois.
Wrong, even in communism, one have his/her right to the means of consumption. Communism only denies use of anything to exploit the labor of others. I think any family have ownership of the flats till they live there. They don't have any right to sell or handover the housing to others.

[Fulanito de Tal]

Outstanding law! Usually, with all of the negative news such as the assault on Libya, breakdown of unions, etc., I become cynical. This is the type of shit that gives me hope for a better future. :thumbup1:

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

Wrong, even in communism, one have his/her right to the means of consumption. Communism only denies use of anything to exploit the labor of others. I think any family have ownership of the flats till they live there. They don't have any right to sell or handover the housing to others.

That's what I meant by home-ownership (selling and housing as capitalist property). There would obviously be what we can call "right of occupation" for the resident(s), which is not bourgeois, but the ownership as such can be to the neighbourhood committee or all-encompassing public housing authority.

[pranabjyoti]

That's what I meant by home-ownership (selling and housing as capitalist property). There would obviously be what we can call "right of occupation" for the resident(s), which is not bourgeois, but the ownership as such can be to the neighbourhood committee or all-encompassing public housing authority.
How can you be so sure? Have you read and understand the rules and regulations of the whole project?

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

How can you be so sure? Have you read and understand the rules and regulations of the whole project?

My comment was not about this project, but about a comment in this thread by Red Xan which I quoted which went on about home-ownership and said;

"I only hope that this will not create a gap between the workers in the new housing, and those able to have their own houses."
which seems to reflect this United States fetishisation of home-ownership.

This project on the other hand seems to be a neighbourhood committee project and my comment had nothing to do with it.