The Minister of Housing and Buildings, Carlos Bonilla, delivered housing vouchers to members of the Fire Department of the National District as part of the “My Housing Plan”.
The assigned housing bonds cover up to 60% of the cost of the units of the families that were benefited, who have a term of up to 20 years to pay the remaining cost of the houses.
“Today is a day of celebration! Today we deliver 71 Plan Mi Vivienda vouchers to beneficiary families of our valuable Fire Department, who have met all the requirements requested in the registration phase. Process in which more than 100,000 Dominican men and women signed up,” said Minister Bonilla.
For her part, Mayor Carolina Mejía explained how the benefit was achieved for firefighters, whose initiative had been planned since before President Luis Abinader became president.
“Today is a day of giving thanks, I thank you, for your lives and those of your families, for all the people who have helped improve your living conditions over the last few years,” added the mayor.
On the subject, Senator Faride Raful stated that in the discussions that took place in the Senate of the Republic prior to the creation of the Ministry of Housing, it was precisely how they were going to support the social housing plans through the institution.
“We have always tried to ensure that the fundamental right to housing is enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic and is a priority for the Dominican State” highlighted the senator.
Ruth Esther Enríquez, a member of the Fire Department, who has been working for 13 years as a telephone operator receiving emergency calls and sending the selected team to the points where the sinister fires are registered, said that “paying rent in the Dominican Republic is very expensive. ”, “my dream is that my children have their own roof, where they can develop, be independent and feel free; today I am happy, because I can say that thanks to the Ministry of Housing I can have the home I always dreamed of”.