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The Senate sent to the Chamber the bill that renews the validity of the special procedure for the regularization of buildings intended for harmless microenterprises or social equipment established in Law No. 20,898, and make some clarifications, aimed at facilitating its application.
With this, the regularization will apply until December 31, 2025, in accordance with the provisions of Law No. 21,558, published in April 2023, "leaving both matters linked, in such a way that any new extensions are carried out harmoniously and not separately, as happened previously," explained Senator Fidel Espinoza, president of the Housing and Urban Planning Commission., which analyzed the motion and heard from various related actors.
It should be noted that the project is authored by Senators María José Gatica and Ximena Rincón and Senators David Sandoval and Matías Walker and former Senator Álvaro Elizalde.
In addition, the specialized body agreed on other technical clarifications to Law No. 20,898:
On Housing Regularization, it is pointed out that when the regularization is applied, building permits and final reception permits will be obtained simultaneously.
It is clarified that the bathrooms and kitchen of a house are part of the built surface, but do not integrate the living area of a house.
Applicants for housing regularization, as well as harmless microenterprises or social equipment, are obliged to provide the single form of building statistics or the electronic income certificate thereof, in order to ensure the accuracy of official statistics. In the case of regularizations carried out through the housing improvement and expansion program, it is also requested that the respective subsidy be accredited.
The reference to the new numbering of the law on co-ownership of real estate is updated.
