{"id":1507,"date":"2026-07-07T05:37:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2026-07-07T05:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:37:58","slug":"yacht-owners-and-public-housing-residents-once-shared-venezuelas-coast-now-they-share-its-ruin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topmovingpross.com\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":"Yacht owners and public housing residents once shared Venezuela\u2019s coast. Now they share its ruin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CARABALLEDA, Venezuela (AP) \u2014 The rich and poor shared paradise in Caraballeda on Venezuela\u2019s<\/span> Caribbean coast. Their apartments, a few with direct marina access and hundreds in public housing towers, stood on the same curving street and offered idyllic views of the white sandy beaches and crystal waters.<\/p>\n

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The yacht owners and public transit riders who shared this road epitomized the social integration that the government set out to accomplish. Many of them enjoying a holiday or resting at home on June 24 met the same fate when the ground shook so violently that their homes flattened in seconds<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Now, about 17,000 who survived also share the uncommon status of being homeless in Venezuela<\/span>. As the official death toll climbs above 3,500<\/span>, many must rely on a government that has been excoriated for its response to the tragedy<\/span> and that has politicized housing in the past to figure out where they will live \u2014 if they will have a new home at all.<\/p>\n

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Housing is still a constant even in times of crisis<\/h2>\n

Housing has generally been the first aspiration for Venezuelan adults since the second half of the 20th century, when an oil bonanza allowed the government to fund housing complexes, the poor to build brick and cement shacks locally known as \u201cranchos,\u201d and the rich to buy second and third homes. <\/p>\n

Even when the country\u2019s economy came undone in 2013, most Venezuelans still had a roof over their heads, be it by getting one handed out by the country\u2019s self-described socialist government, buying one at a deep discount from people desperate for cash to migrate, building ranchos on top of each other, and even invading abandoned homes.<\/p>\n

Those in housing built by the ruling party of 27 years \u2014 currently helmed by acting President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez<\/span> \u2014 do not hold the deeds to the property, but the homes allowed them to save and keep entire families off the streets. <\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was their home, their house. It was an immense joy when they were assigned these houses here,\u201d Carlos Ortega said of the 12 apartments in Caraballeda that his relatives were assigned to more than a decade ago following years of financial struggles after a mudslide.<\/p>\n

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\u201cImagine, they were given a home after losing everything, but now they\u2019ve lost everything, even their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

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