translated from Spanish: The largest housing crisis in chile’s history

Law 19,537 on real estate co-ownership published in the official journal on 16 December 1997 aims to regulate through rules the behaviour, limits and criteria that people must follow when living in a community. However, since 2000 when the real estate boom began, it is projected that more than 30,000 have been built across the country to date.
The problems of buildings in Chile are already visible in all communities. From robberies, labor lawsuits, defaulters, non-payment of suppliers, conflicting tenants, violence, assaults, drug trafficking, prostitution, uncontrolled parties, lack of certifications and maintenance, devaluation of people’s assets, are some of the effects that occur in the communities. At least, each of these variables have all buildings without exception.
Since the social outbreak and pandemic, 20 months have accumulated in which you cannot intervene effectively. This is because you cannot modify co-ownership regulations, hold extraordinary assemblies and less make meaningful decisions that look after the common good of buildings. And as a result, new committees cannot be elected to make effective decisions in addition to changing administrators.
On December 14, 2017, the Senate presented the bill of new co-ownership law, with the purpose of establishing new regulations that would benefit the decision-making and operation of the buildings. And for now, there is only the good intention to make things better but this law is not yet enacted and they go 24 years without an updated regulatory framework.
However, to this scenario, they still do not give signals if based on the 2017 update the management of the health crisis is contemplated and what protocols must be done so that the authorities of each community can act safely ensuring the safety and health of the buildings.
The gaps that exist by law, lack of clarity of the co-ownership regulations, not holding assemblies to elect new leaders has resulted in an abandonment and resignations of committees in many buildings due to the pressure involved in participating in this position. And whose effect is not to have an authority who regulate the rules of the building giving way to free action by the residents since the regulations and law is in their favor to commit acts of indiscipline.
At the moment, agreements can only be reached to resolve conflicts since the local police courts are not at 100% of their powers and will not give a great intervention for all the communities that to date present the symptoms exposed. That they are difficult to solve as long as there is no fair, explicit law with the real behaviors of the residents and the sanctions are exemplary for those who negatively impact the common good and social peace of each of the residents.

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