Skyscraper "Tower of David" in Venezuela - an amazing vertical slum Bashny.Net

It lives almost 3,000 bezdomnyh



The Tower of David - a 45-storey skyscraper in the Venezuelan capital Caracas. The exterior is unremarkable abandoned building, but inside it live more than 3,000 urban homeless.

Construction began in the early 1990s. Originally conceived as the Tower of David, an important part of the new financial district. In 1994, the builder died and construction stopped, and by 2007 almost every flat concrete skeleton were people who had nowhere else to go. It's not too surprising - the houses in Caracas is clearly not enough: on the good, the city could do with more two million dwellings.





The current inhabitants of the tower inside seems to be convenient. As they enter the building through the garage. On the lower floors of the 28 families live: no elevators in high-rise, of course not, because that has to go up and down on foot.





Residents themselves have connected the house to the utility grid and held system of aqueducts to deliver water. In total, for the convenience of each family pays 200 Bolivar (about $ 32) - all-inclusive, including patrolling the area 24 hours a day. Volunteers from each floor of the tower trying to keep clean. Inside are several small firms - a dentist, shops and a beauty salon.







One of the leaders of the small community of Ricardo Jimenez believes that people have a right to live here. According to him, The Tower of David - a sad symbol of all that is happening with Venezuelan cities. Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning Guillermo Barrios believes that the use of an abandoned skyscraper thus can not but recognize that the government do not care what will happen to this place, so it is completely out of the rule of law - the residents have their own law.





Those who live outside the skyscraper, consider it a den of robbers and a symbol of the outrageous disrespect for other people's property rights. By the way, the tower regularly scours the police - searching for missing or abducted persons. However, residents believe that the tower - one of the safest places in the city.

via factroom.ru