“Poverty in a neighborhood is multi-causal, there are a lot of things that generate poverty“Miño highlighted. In popular neighborhoods, generally service companies do not enter, electrical connections are poor, river networks and cloacal many times they do not arrive, all of this is what generates poverty in a neighborhood.
So much so, that the councilor and former candidate for mayor of Rosario Juan Monteverdedefined this public policy as “the first serious attempt to address structural poverty in Argentina not from income but from the material conditions of existence“.
Contrary to what had happened until now, the FISU was “a policy designed from the bottom up” and therefore “unprecedented in the world.” Hence, even the new official in charge of the secretariat, the official Sebastian Parejaassured that “It was one of the few secretariats that operated in the last 4 years”during the government of Alberto Fernandez.
“I have spoken with many mayors and so far I have not found criticism. What I am seeing is a budget with more than 80% executed”said Pareja, and explained that he also met with representatives of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)where “they promote the work carried out by Miño as an example” and “especially the My Piece program”.
Socio-Urban Integration Fund: Milei cut the financing of the PAIS tax from 9% to 1%
This trust fund was financed, until this Monday, with a 9% of the COUNTRY Taxwith loans from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the National Contribution and for the only time with the 15% of the Solidarity and Extraordinary Contribution of the great fortunes of 2021. In the last four years, FISU managed $550,000 million, according to Miño.
However, that financing changed on Monday, when the Government decided to activate the chainsaw and prune the financing, reducing it only to 1% COUNTRY tax. “Before we had 9% of the 30% of the tax that falls on the dollar, which would be close to 1% of the collection, now it is 0.3% of the collection,” Miño explained.
“They want to defund these works and use those funds for something else. There is a constant contempt for the poor and popular neighborhoods”Miño pointed out.
The Socio-Urban Integration Fund in number of works
From the beginning of the FISU until December 31, 2023, the total number of approved works was 251,395of which 207,244 are completed, representing more than 80% of the total. Among the works he carries out are the general urban integration, lots with services for access to urban land in popular sectors and home improvement programslike the Line “My piece”. During that period, the different programs and lines of intervention benefited 5,060 popular neighborhoods, of the 6,467 included in the ReNaBaP. That is, more than 78% of the total universe of registered neighborhoods.
Of the total of these works, about 250,000 were expenditures of the program “My piece”so alone granted financing in two tranches to women so that they can renovate, improve or expand their homes; That is to say, the work did not have to be outsourced by SISU, but rather was carried out by the same family to which it was awarded. More than 80% of the works in this program are 100% completed, according to the transparency report of Socio-Urban Integration to which this media had access.
Miño explained that the works of urban socio improvement They reached 1,400 neighborhoods – which is not small – and last year about 400 were carried out, of which 30% were completed and 82% were close to being completed.
Couple and Miño met on Mondaythe leader said that they had a “pleasant chat“and that the new official “repeated what he said in the note” and assured him that “not a single comma changes,” since he met with different mayors of different political groups and international organizations, who praised the policies carried out .
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The former Secretary of Socio-Urban Integration, Fernanda Miño, when she was active.
Corruption complaint
Last week, different national media reported a alleged embezzlement of funds of the FISU, which fell on both Miño and Grabois. Both classified the media complaints as a “smear campaign”since the work carried out by the Secretariat of Socio-Urban Integration (SISU).
There was even a discussion about a truck that Miño has and that, according to what he told this medium, he has had since before reaching public office because he bought it with a lawsuit from an accident his partner had. “I still live in the same neighborhood”mentioned Miño, in reference to La Cava, from San Isidroand continued: “That generates hatred in them, there is hatred towards the lower classes, because people live in a popular neighborhood they cannot have a car and go on vacation.”
“Regardless of the operations they continue to carry out, they will not tarnish this beautiful work carried out by the area of socio-urban integration and which we hope and hope will continue. We will be there for whatever you need and we can help“he assured.
There was also talk of an alleged discretion when granting the projects, but How was financing granted for neighborhood improvements? In principle, it should be noted that they were the smallest projects, not in the content of works but in quantity.
However, it was not the same secretariat that had people in charge of implementing it, but it was the civil society actors or municipalities that presented the projects and from them the SISU granted the financing. This could be private companies or cooperatives, although a 25% of these works by law had to be granted to these last associations.
“This was a new area and my position was political, convince that this 9% had to go directly to the worksthere was not even per diem or for airplanes as they wanted to install, everything was allocated to works“, closed the former official.
Source: Ambito
