Nonetheless one other scandal rocked the beleaguered housing authority INVU, devoted to offering housing to the poor. La Nacion reported Tuesday that 13 poor households had been excluded from getting properties within the El Faro undertaking in Guarari de Heredia as a result of they may not pay unlawful “charges” to the administrator of the undertaking.

Of their place, chief of the Las Orquideas Housing Affiliation, Ligia Murillo, elected to position households from as distant as Perez Zeledon and Leon XIII at Tibas who may pay the 5,000 colon per thirty days charge. Among the rejected households have lived in slums for 20 years.

“Sure, charges are collected however I don’t should inform you how a lot was charged,” snarled Murillo defiantly at La Nacion reporters, “Should you see one thing incorrect on this or say that these households aren’t from Guarari, go and ask at INVU. They’re those that should finance this.

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“I can’t inform in the event that they lied or not … The households that have been excluded, have been denied entry as a result of they didn’t wish to be included within the course of,” she added. (See Extra Hassle at INVU: Homes Faulty, INVU Fires Two High Officers in Scandal, INVU Officers Charged with Corruption)

Article 35 of the rules for choosing households to obtain homes specifies that “there should be no clauses…of the affiliation that imposes cost of sums of cash or quotas on beneficiaries for his or her eventual choice as beneficiaries.”

However that was not all that La Nacion reported. In November of 2012, the 13 holdout households acquired letters of eviction inside 15 days from INVU, basically turning them out of their slum. The households filed a go well with towards INVU to cease the eviction which introduced the method to a halt.

The court docket returned a ruling of warning to the El Faro undertaking. However the ruling didn’t point out the cost demanded of the undertaking’s beneficiaries though the criticism talked about it.

“We continued paying 5,000 colones. The cost stored coming since 2008 — I paid,” Marguerita Martinez advised the paper,”In 2012 I couldn’t pay Ligia Murillo so she determined to take me off the record. For one who lives in poverty, 5,000 colones means loads.”

The court docket’s freezing of the billion colon undertaking has discomfited INVU board chairman Alvaro Gonzalez. He says an INVU group has already sat down with legal professionals for the excluded households to return to some conciliation. Murillo additionally heads the associations administering two different undertaking, one at Heredia and the opposite in San Carlos.

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As for Murillo, she responded to La Nacion’s questions with a verbal shrug. “If some regulation of INVU has been violated, INVU will resolve what to do. I can’t reply…,” she mentioned.

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