Affordable Condominium Housing

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who permitted me to hold the focus group event at the Secretaría de Habitat auditorium.To my host family in Bogota, my friend Lorena Avella, her mother Lilia and the rest of the family, thank you all! After discovering that Bogota had interesting arrangements in which social managers work with social housing projects, I invited some of these professionals to come to Quito in January of 2013, to meet their Ecuadorian counterparts doing social management, or acompañamiento social as it called in Latin America. Together with Fundación Bien Estar, one of the few organizations with experience in condominium social management in Ecuador, we organized an event which people from both the Municipality and the Housing Ministry attended. We shared the different approaches to social management from the two countries. Thanks to Mutualista Pichincha and their directive board, to Pablo Valencia for organizing this event together with me. Thanks to Laura Salamanca and Pilar Leguísamo from Responder Corporation for coming to Ecuador to share their extensive experience helping communities to self-organize and take responsibility of their common property.My oldest friends know about the ups and downs during all these years. To my friends