Two Bed, Two Bath and Walking Distance to a Plaza
The current housing crisis has caused people throughout Argentina to homestead in abandoned buildings. In Santa Fe a group of men have taken the squatting epidemic to a new level by seizing a community plaza and constructing a pair of houses on it.
Construction in Plaza Matheu.
Photo From: Cronica
The construction began shortly after Easter, when “a group of people took over the public space, removed all of the playground equipment, the benches, and even the trees.” Shortly there-after “a truck brought bricks and they began to build”, the angry city residents said.
Neighbors of Matheu plaza protested to the municipal and provincial government yesterday, desperately pleading to have the builders evicted. The residents are becoming frantic as "construction is advancing quickly" and nobody is taking measures to halt it. The neighbors are hopeful that Governor Hermes Binner will act hastily; otherwise the plaza will be the new residence for two of the area’s more industrious families.
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