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The Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA) comprises what it is known as "urban sprawl", that is to say, the area where houses spread, trying to define an essentially mobile reality.
This area includes the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, the total surface of 14 localities of the Province of Buenos Aires, the partial surface of 16 others, and a small part of other two.
AMBA constitutes, due to the amount of inhabitants, the greatest urban concentration of Argentina, the second one in South America (after Sao Paulo, Brazil) and the third one in all Latin America and the Caribbean (after the City of Mexico).
The ongoing economic and social crises in the country have worsened and deepened the housing issue. Thousands of people are living in precarious houses with no guarantees or sufficient income to pay for a rent or pay for an installment of a mortgage loan.
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The City of Buenos Aires undergoes an additional phenomenon: the existence of empty or under-used properties in areas where the infrastructure and basic services exist, and where there are families who pay amounts similar to a rent on a monthly basis, to live in infrahuman conditions.
The program of Habitat for Humanity Argentina started in Buenos Aires in the year 2007, with the challenge of using a new methodology adapted to the particular housing issues of this region.
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