Emergency Ordinance
Introduction
The Emergency Villa Eradication Plan (PEVE) was a government project of the Argentine Republic aimed at solving the problem of housing for the humble and marginalized classes.
Regulation
It was regulated in the first instance by Law 16,601/64 on November 24, 1964,[1] during the presidency of Arturo Illia. The legislation established that the Secretary of State for Public Works should be in charge of administering a plan to definitively eradicate precarious settlements, known in Argentina as slums or villas miseria.
It also regulated types and surfaces of housing, types of loans, cases of land granting and the obligation to incorporate it into the family property. He also specified that the works should be undertaken to satisfy sectors with minimal or no savings capacity.
Finally, Law 16,601 allocated general revenue funds for financing, in the case of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area; and pension and provincial funds in the interior of the country.
On December 29, 1967, Law 17,605 was passed, which regulated a new Plan for the eradication of Emergency Villas, driven by the floods caused by the Reconquista River that caused a large number of humble families to lose their homes. "Law 17,605 contained two complementary programs. One, the construction of 8,000 transitional homes in 17 Transitory Housing Nuclei. In these nuclei of 13.3 square meters per family, the villeros were supposed to -again- "readapt", before being transferred as civilized people to their new homes. Social experts would be in charge of "motivating" the villeros to leave behind their terrible codes of conduct (...) The villagers were not particularly enthusiastic about either the NHT or the eradications. They did not have many ways to express it since the Onganía dictatorship did not have in its plans to recognize the Federation of Villas as an interlocutor for anything. This is how the massive use of bulldozers and mechanical shovels began to make its debut in history, which the Process knew how to perfect by sophisticating the ways of creating terror. 2001).
For his part, Brigadier Osvaldo Cacciatore, de facto mayor of Buenos Aires after a distribution of powers between the three Armed Forces, sanctioned on July 13, 1977 ordinance 33,652, by which the Municipal Housing Commission (CMV) was in charge of the “comprehensive eradication plan” of villas. The head of that organization, Guillermo del Cioppo, summarized the spirit of its eradication work three years later: "Effective work must be done to improve the habitat, health and hygiene conditions. Specifically: living in Buenos Aires is not for everyone but for those who deserve it, for those who accept the guidelines of a pleasant and efficient community life. We must have a better city for the best people" (Quoted in Oszlak, 1991).[2].