Local Housing, Land and Habitat Councils
The purpose of the Local Housing, Land and Habitat Councils is to articulate social demands related to housing, land and habitat issues, and to communicate them to governmental institutions. They are also in charge of monitoring policies related to these issues. Representatives of civil society organizations, religious institutions, trade unions, professional associations, neighborhood committees and universities participate in the Councils. Early experiences were the creation of the Council in Saladillo, in 2007, and Florencio Varela, in 2012. However, most of the Councils were created after the enactment in 2013 of Provincial Law 14,449 on Fair Access to Habitat, which seeks to promote the municipality's democratic management with regard to land and habitat issues. Thus, in 2013 the council in Almirante Brown was created, in 2014 those of La Plata and Avellaneda, in 2015 Morón and Villa Gesel, in 2016 Bahía Blanca, Cañuelas, Hurlingham, Junín and Ramallo, in 2017 Malvinas Argentinas, Pilar and Chascomús joined, in 2018 Escobar, in 2019 Carmen de Patagones and in 2020 Lomas de Zamora.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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