Engineer Guido Valdiviaexecutive director of the Peruvian Chamber of Constructions (capeco), warned that at the national level, 93% of urban expansion was due to informality or surface transport; something that is evident in the floods observed in various parts of the country.
“He State he gives up his ability to control and plan. There is no territorial planning in Peru. Just like an emergency El Niño phenomenonthe national government had to fund the urban development plans of the cities that had this problem,” he warned in News extension.
“If there is no urban planning, you can’t even know where the stormwater goes because you don’t know what’s down there,” he added.
The leader pointed out that between the 1960s and 1990s there was a “great expansion” of cities through migrationan extension characterized by informality “which cannot be controlled”.
“What did he do State was regularized. Thus, a large formalized informality was formed, but not at home, but at the land. And the house was built by the hands of master builders,” he added.
poorly built houses
In this regard, he pointed out that, according to a study by Capeco, between 2008 and 2020, 67% of homes in Metropolitan of Lima it was built informally.
“This is a fight against death. There are 60 deaths that should be regretted, but this is due to the informal occupation of land in places where one should not live, and construction is added to this, which is not helped by professionals, ”he said.
This situation puts millions of people at risk, not only in the face of heavy rains such as those currently occurring, but especially in the face of the possibility of a major earthquake.
Source: RPP
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