

As most of the existing vulnerable neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires City, by 2016 Rodrigo Bueno faced housing problems (40% of houses under the flood zone), urban problems (lack of public utilities and public spaces) and socioeconomic problems. Under participatory governance, the local government gathered the neighbours to create an intervention program, so as to integrate the neighbourhood with the formal City.

The Housing Institute launched the “Sustainable Housing and Habitat Strategy”, a new working area which focuses on the definition and promotion of the sustainable agenda. As an example, the Rodrigo Bueno Organic Garden and Nursery was created in 2019 by 14 women. With the city government support, they started to sell their products – native plants, vegetables and aromatics – outside the neighbourhood.
Due to the interest received, the neighbours, the Housing Institute and the Health Minister of the City created the Environmental Health Board, a local space to promote, discuss and propose environmental initiatives. Among other things, they promoted the plantation of native trees all over the neighbourhood.
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