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Solangel Valdez

Solangel Valdez
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Journalist, photographer, and public relations specialist. Aspiring writer, reader, cook, and wanderer.
Dwelling

What the 2010 census found, and what Danilo Medina inherited

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Eight years after Leonel Fernández returned to power, the country saw a slight improvement in the quality of its existing housing, but the number...
Tourism

A year of accidents at sea: seven incidents put the safety of Dominican Republic beaches under scrutiny

Solangel Valdez -
Newspaper records between August 2025 and August 2026 identify fires, collisions, and mechanical failures involving tourist and recreational vessels in Santo Domingo.
Dwelling

The law that Fernández failed to implement: the trust

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Law 189-11 introduced the concept of the trust into Dominican law and laid the legal foundation for large housing projects...
Construction

Minerd reveals the seismic vulnerability map of Dominican schools

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A government-commissioned assessment of educational infrastructure has identified schools requiring demolition, reinforcement, or intervention. SANTO DOMINGO - The first...
Tourism

ONIC questions the limitation of short-term rentals without demonstrating their impact on the hotel industry

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Melchor Alcántara argues that the size of the short-stay accommodation supply does not, in itself, demonstrate that there is a displacement of...
Dwelling

The election calendar: the fuel for housing

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An analysis of month-by-month budget execution shows that investment in housing accelerated systematically in the first four...
Dwelling

The ONE's new population projections and the pressure on housing

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Although the Dominican real estate market typically looks at building permits, sales, prices, interest rates, or available inventory to...
Tourism

Punta Bergantín adds PUCMM to the research on its economic and regional impact

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The agreement, announced by David Collado on his social media, aims to generate information to measure the project's impact and guide the opportunities that...
Dwelling

Villa Progreso: the map of 5,391 relocated families

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Between 2004 and 2010, INVI documented eighteen projects under that brand, spread throughout the country, although almost half of the solutions...
Cultural Scaffold

The path to the place where the stone that seems to copy the seabed is born

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The mountain landscape is unremarkable, offering nothing to suggest it holds a treasure, and yet, it does...
National Issue

The new demographics of the Dominican Republic: according to the ONE, there will be fewer children and more senior citizens

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The Dominican Republic is entering a new stage of its demographic transition, marked by lower fertility, higher life expectancy, and...
Structural Wellbeing

How much does "just looking at your phone" really weigh?

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There's a gesture that's repeated dozens of times a day without thinking: lowering your head to read a message. SANTO DOMINGO. - The head...
Dwelling

The housing bank that stopped being a housing bank

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Two laws signed in 2004 and 2006 redesigned the state apparatus that supported housing policy, just as Leonel Fernández returned to the presidency.
Real estate market

ONIC warns that restrictive regulation of short-term rentals could reduce real estate investment in the country

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Melchor Alcántara argues that the expected profitability of short-term rentals is part of the purchase decision for some units and...
Dwelling

In eight years the rate of housing construction was cut in half

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Between 2004 and 2012, the National Housing Institute went from delivering approximately 1,860 units per year to just 738, before...
Real estate market

The party's over for squatters: the new Penal Code imposes jail time on those who occupy other people's land

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With penalties of up to 10 years in prison, immediate eviction, and demolition of improvements, Law 74-25 toughens the punishment against those who invade like never before...
Dwelling

Housing: the last priority in line

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In his first two speeches as president for the second time, Leonel Fernández mentioned housing only once in each, always alongside...
Dwelling

Credit for home purchases grows 11.9% while the Central Bank maintains the monetary policy rate at 5.25%

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Loans for home purchases reached RD$471,940.4 million in March, in a market where year-on-year inflation stood at 5.47% in July...
Dwelling

The first exact number of a century deficit

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Hipólito Mejía handed over power to Leonel Fernández in August 2004 without having resolved the housing deficit, but he left something that no other government has...
Docks

How does Alejandro Campos receive Apordom after six years of management by Jean Luis Rodríguez?

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SANTO DOMINGO. - President Luis Abinader appointed Francisco Alejandro Campos Álvarez as the new executive director of the Dominican Port Authority (Apordom), through...
Construction

What does it mean for owners and investors that Onesvie finds vulnerability in 10% of the buildings evaluated?

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On the 80th anniversary of the La Vega earthquake of August 4, 1946, the last major earthquake recorded in the country,...
Safe Voltage

Joel Santos will head the EDES Council

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With four positions held in six years within the Abinader administration, Santos arrives at a CUED that inherits a loss reduction plan...
Dwelling

The 429 Invivienda units that were left in limbo

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Two decades after being initiated by Salvador Jorge Blanco, the country's most ambitious housing project fell into the hands of Hipólito Mejía, who...
Construction

Jean Luis Rodríguez: third generation of a family linked to Public Works arrives at MIVHED

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The new Minister of Housing, Habitat and Buildings, appointed by Decree 554-26, replacing Víctor Orlando “Ito” Bisonó Haza, formed his first...
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