Housing: Indicators System (BUE0019)

Link with the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 (SDG) SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities.

Status quo / Issue to be addressed In Argentina, access to housing is a citizen right which is enshrined in the Constitution (NC Art 14), in the City of Buenos Aires the Constitution “recognises the right to decent housing and suitable habitat.” One of the main challenges when seeking comprehensive solutions and making effective impact decisions is the lack of statistics and complete information on the housing issue.

General objective Explore the available information, primary sources in areas, academic publications, and build indicators of periodic publication for the different axes of the access to housing issue. Generate and publish open information related to access to housing, access to rental housing, idle housing, urbanisation processes in slums and human settlements, access to mortgage loans and provision of social houses. In this way, we expect to promote access to housing and integration of families of Buenos Aires City (CABA) and increase transparency in the management of the provision of housing solutions to neighbours by providing them with comprehensive information and keeping a continuous update frequency.

Brief description of the initiative Creation of a “housing observatory” published in a web platform with open and georeferenced data and periodic updates. We seek to make the information on availability and access to housing in CABA transparent and promote/ diffuse the existing offer of solutions.

Describe the way in which this commitment is relevant to strengthen OGP values of transparency, access to information, public accountability, civic participation, and technology and innovation for openness and accountability. The publication of information about different aspects of the access to housing issue will contribute to the values of transparency, access to information, accountability and they will strengthen civil society’s capacity to monitor and assess public policies. It will also strengthen civic participation in the processes of elaboration of comprehensive impact solutions.

Milestones Ongoing or new commitment Start date End date Establish a diagnosis of available information, bearing in mind the normalisation and unification of criteria. Ongoing July 2018 December 2018 Elaboration of an index of each of the topics to be published. Some indicators: - Awardees, statistical data of beneficiary of the mortgage loans “Primera Casa BA” (First Home BA) and 341 - Awardees (statistical data) beneficiaries of social housing - Publication of georeferenced information about public work under re-urbanisation process. - Rent - Publication of budgetary information of each of the involved secretariats. - Reports on the housing issue in CABA. - Quantification of idle housing (and transparency on how we arrived at such index) New July 2018 July 2019 Openness of information on housing and display in a citizen-friendly format. New December 2019 December 2019 Publication and dissemination of the observatory of housing (Observatorio de Vivienda) through: communication campaigns, participatory stages with diverse actors, revision and feedback spaces on indicators, expansion of the commitment towards other areas working on the housing issue, etc. New December 2019 December 2020

14. Vivienda: Sistema de indicadores

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Este compromiso fue identificado como compromiso notable. Sin embargo, solo dos de los tres hitos se cumplieron completamente. Durante el primer año de implementación, el Instituto de Vivienda de la Ciudad (IVC) trabajó en el desarrollo de una matriz de indicadores de vivienda, teniendo en cuenta la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible. En diciembre de 2019, se publicaron ocho nuevos sets de datos en el sitio web de BA Data sobre los siguientes temas: 1. Mercado inmobiliario, 2. Disposición urbana, 3. Hogares en situación de vulnerabilidad, 4. Vivienda durable y calidad constructiva de la vivienda, 5. Vivienda - Seguridad en la tenencia, 6. Escrituras IVC, 7. Conjuntos urbanos y Cooperativas IVC, y 8. Infraestructura y Acceso a saneamiento [59].

Respecto al Observatorio de la vivienda, el mismo ya se había creado con antelación a la fecha de cocreación del compromiso, sin embargo desde la Secretaría General informaron que el IVC se comprometió a relanzarlo y difundirlo, así como a publicar nueva información que había sido solicitada por las organizaciones de la sociedad civil en el marco de una de las últimas mesas de trabajo del foro multiactor.