Venezuela - Mision Habitat

An interesting facet of President Chavez's Socialist Regime is the Bolivarian Missions.

These are "a series of social justice, social welfare, anti-poverty, educational, electoral and military recruiting programs" - aimed at tackling major issues and improving Venezuela.

Currently there are a long list of Missions, but one in particular stands out.

"Mision Hábitat is a Venezuelan Bolivarian Mission that has as its goal the construction of thousands of new housing units for the poor. The program also seeks to develop agreeable and integrated housing zones that make available a full range of social services — from education to healthcare — which likens its vision to that of New Urbanism.

According to Venezuela's El Universal, one of the Chávez administration's outstanding weaknesses is the failure to meet its goals of construction of housing. Chávez promised to build 150,000 houses in 2006, but in the first half of the year, completed only 24 percent of that target, with 35,000 houses."

So this indicates that housing maybe an issue that perhaps any intervention to de Enero could solve.

- Also another failing Mission is the Mission Mercal. This seeks to provide access to high-quality produce, grains, dairy, and meat at discounted prices. Aiming to provide Venezuela's poor increased access to nutritious, safe, and organic locally- and nationally-grown foodstuffs. Seeks also to increase Venezuela's food sovereignty. Its concrete results, however, are highly debatable, as in 2007 the country is heavily more dependent on imported foodstuffs than it was in 1997, and has been facing chronic shortages in several basic supplies: milk, edible oils, sugar, cereals, eggs, and others.

So: Housing PLUS Locally grown produce? All placed inside a Socialist inspired eco-scraper?