SANTO DOMINGO- The Dominican Republic has 4,418,619 homes, of which 720,200 are unoccupied, according to statistics from the X National Population and Housing Census, offered yesterday Thursday by the National Statistics Office (ONE).
The ONE assigns the category of unoccupied housing to the housing unit that at the time of registration is not inhabited by people and that could be offered for rent, for sale, or simply uninhabited.
The investigation revealed that 3,689,348 homes are occupied; 9,071 were included in the category of collective housing, which are those used to house people subject to rules of coexistence and common behavior.
"In other words, collective housing is intended to serve as habitual accommodation for people subject to administrative subordination and obliged to comply with rules of coexistence by virtue of being related by a public objective or some common personal interest, such as reasons of health, discipline, order, teaching, religion, work, accommodation or social assistance," he explains.
Santo Domingo tops the list
Santo Domingo is the province with the highest number of vacant homes, with 170,143 out of a total of 1,105,316. It has 934,478 occupied homes. Next is Santiago de los Caballeros, where out of 452,590 homes, 75,581 are vacant and 374,097 are occupied.
In the National District there are 418,392 dwellings, of which 54,613 are vacant and 363,153 are occupied. La Altagracia follows, with 220,039 existing dwellings, 49,053 of which are vacant. San Cristóbal has 265,345 dwellings, of which 43,702 are vacant.
In La Vega there are 33,674 unoccupied homes out of a total of 186,862, San Pedro de Macorís has 141,642 homes of which 25,627 are unoccupied, Puerto Plata has 149,142 homes, of which 24,733 are unoccupied.
Likewise, Azua has 12,604 unoccupied homes, Bahoruco 6,254, Barahona 9,481, Dajabón 5,629, Duarte province 20,234, Elias Piña 3,170, El Seibo 7,209, Espaillar 11,244, Independencia 3,228, La Romana 13,649, María Trinidad Sánchez 11,580, Monte Cristi 12,076, Pedernales 1,703, Peravia 17,159, Hermanas Mirabal 7,116, Samaná 10,863, San Juan de la Maguana 15,051, Sánchez Ramírez 11,553.
Similarly, in Santiago Rodríguez there are 3,405 unoccupied houses, in Valverde 13,889, Monseñor Nouel 15,082, Monte Plata 16,566, Hato Mayor 7,796 and San José de Ocoa 6,533.
