This inland town was the first town to reactivate the Procrear works

Following the national government’s decision to terminate the housing plan, a municipality received the transfer of land to complete the houses

12/12/2025 – 1:44 p.m

In an unprecedented event on a national level, the community Guaymallenon a large scale Mendozawas the first municipality in the country to take the baton and reactivate a housing development of the extinct Procrear program that had been paralyzed. Governor Alfredo Cornejo and Mayor Marcos Calvente signed the transfer of the property, which was under national administration and has not made any progress since 2022.

The nation’s decision to transfer ownership to the municipality allows Guaymallén to assume custody, management responsibilities and comprehensive planning Housing of the future. With this step, the municipality not only regains an abandoned property, but also initiates an important process of reactivating housing for the province’s working middle class.

Mayor Calvente emphasized that this management represents a “turning point” and that this agreement was reached after several negotiations with the mortgage bank and national authorities. “We transformed an abandoned property into a historic opportunity for Guaymallén and hundreds of families,” he said.

Guaymallén, in Mendoza, will resume the construction of houses under the Procrear plan

The facility is located in the Buena Nueva district and has an area of ​​almost 2,000 m² 96,245 square meters. The original Procrear project envisaged 504 units, but the municipality announced that it would double the amount and achieve this more than 800 dormitories.

The reactivation of the housing plan is based on three pillars aimed at reducing the cost per square meter of real estate development by more than 30%:

• Provincial investment: The Government of Mendoza is already carrying out extensive sanitation works that include the maximum sewerage, drainage and water networks, with an investment of more than 7 million dollars crucial to this development.
• Municipal investment: The municipality will take over all urban development and property-internal infrastructure work.
• Project reengineering: The original design will be modified to optimize land use and increase urban density, allowing the creation of more than 800 housing solutions.

Governor Cornejo appreciated and emphasized the courage of Mayor Calvente in taking on the challenge This project could become a precedent for the national government and the mortgage company. The president of Mendoza assured that the province can take this risk because its bills are “in order,” a crucial factor in the country’s current economic context.

Guaymallén will resume work on the residential property that Procrear had paralyzed

Procreate in Guaymallén: Mendoza reactivates the housing plan

The measure is in line with the Mendoza government’s vision of providing access to housing to an “impoverished middle class” that is now ineligible for mortgage loans in the traditional system.

Mayor Calvente explained that this model aims for a “smart state” with the support of the private and financial sectors. To this end, the municipality will submit an ordinance to the Advisory Council to create a modern urban development framework that includes public-private cooperation programs, trust funds and credit support mechanisms for future successful bidders.

By taking ownership and management of the property, Guaymallén not only revives a broken housing dream, but also lays the foundation for a development that will create jobs and consolidate a pole of community life in the greater Mendoza area, showing that there is a way to solve the housing deficit through local management.