For months now, we’ve been awaiting for OGPe to publish the new, updated and best ever!! Reglamento Conjunto, in other words Puerto Rico’s new land use ordinance. Now we’re up to the third iteration of a “Reglamento Conjunto” under Act 161 of 2009, as amended, since 2010. That comes up to one major overhaul of […]
Puerto Rico’s Housing Secretary Fernando Gil, has claimed that half of the housing in the island has been built without permits, this according to an article by Andres Viglucci published in the Miami Herald on February 14, 2018, see here. If half of that claim is correct, then it provides for a damning assessment of […]
The following is a very interesting study performed by the White House and published September 2016, regarding the effects of permitting on construction costs and therefore its impact on affordable housing in the metropolitan areas. It seems the federal govenrment has identified planning, zoning and permittting laws and regularions as one of the main contributors […]