Eficiencia Legal Para La Inclusión Social in Lima, Peru

La Eficiencia Legal para la Inclusión Social's (ELIS) Rimac Reborn Project focuses on the revitalization of downtown Lima's historical Rimac District. The Rimac District is part of the UNESCO World Heritage site designated in Lima. Slum housing is especially prevalent in older historic neighborhoods. Ninety-five percent of the buildings are not occupied by the property owners. Titleholder abandonment of properties causes the area to fall into disrepair and become unsanitary public health hazards. ELIS is working diligently to change the neighborhood dynamics in the Rimac District. ELIS successfully advocated the passage of national law that mandates any new residential urban development in the historic core to include a social inclusion component. To ELIS social inclusion is achieved by the acquirement of property rights and community led redevelopment.

The American Planning Association (APA) and ELIS will assist at least 60 families in the Rimac District to gain access to credit, acquire property rights to the current buildings they inhabit, and attract builders to invest in the redevelopment projects. ELIS coordinates with various governmental agencies to smoothly transfer property rights from the current deed-holders to the current residents, and upgrade the abandoned properties. The redevelopment process not only requires establishing relations with government agencies and the current residents, but with the private sector as well. ELIS will develop a dossier, or a marketing portfolio for each property to attract private sector redevelopment firms to invest in the newly established property owners.The outcomes of the Rimac Reborn Project will set the methodological standards for replication in the other 43 districts of Metropolitan Lima.

Eficiencia Legal Para La Inclusión Social in Lima, Peru