Ministry of Territorial Development and Habitat


The Ministry of Territorial Development and Habitat of Argentina is a ministry of the national executive power that oversees and defines the Argentine state's policies on housing and habitat.
The ministry was created in 2019, elevating the housing and territorial development areas of the Ministry of the Interior, Public Works and Housing. The first and current minister is María Eugenia Bielsa, since 10 December 2019.

Attributions

The attributions and responsibilities of the Ministry of Territorial Development and Habitat are specified in Article 23 decies of the current Law of Ministries, published in 2019. This law states that the ministry exists since housing is a right, as well as a necessity for the wellbeing of the population. In this vein, the Ministry is in charge of intervening in the elaboration of public policy oriented towards the development of habitat, housing and socio-urban integration, whilst attending to the diversities, demands and ways of inhabiting that manifest across the territory of Argentina.

Structure and dependencies

The Ministry of Territorial Development and Habitat counts with a number of centralized dependencies reporting to it. The centralized dependencies, as in other government ministers, are known as secretariats and undersecretariats ; there are currently three of these:
No decentralized agencies currently report to the Ministry of Territorial Development and Habitat.

Headquarters

The Ministry of Territorial Development and Habitat is headquartered in the eighth floor of the :es:Edificio YPF|YPF Building, located in the Monserrat barrio in Buenos Aires. The office building, completed in 1938, was originally designed to be the headquarters of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales, which it was until 2008 when it moved to its current offices in Puerto Madero.

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