Housing increases transitional shelter subsidies for three families from Ñuble

The Ministry of Housing and Urbanism directly granted an increase in subsidies from the Rural Habitability Program to cover temporary shelter expenses for three families from the communes of San Ignacio and Trehuaco, in the Ñuble Region. The decision is contained in exempt resolution No. 1,448, signed in Santiago on September 14, 2026, and was published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Chile on Monday, September 28, 2026, under official reference CVE 2873618.

The allocation is based on the third paragraph, literal b), of article 8 of DS No. 10 (V. y U.), of 2015, which empowers the Minister of Housing and Urbanism to grant special subsidy allocations in situations of urgent housing need and to increase the amount for beneficiary families to address their temporary shelter, “when there are reasons of security or health, to the extent that the physical integrity or life of the families is compromised.” The total committed amount amounts to 272.4 Unidades de Fomento and is charged to the available resources of the corresponding program for the year 2026 in the Ñuble Region.

The three cases and the allocated amounts

The first resolution details the allocation per beneficiary, with a monthly payment extended for twelve months in all cases:

• Victoria Alejandra Quintana Rivas, RUT 15.169.391-1, commune of San Ignacio: 9.2 UF monthly, 12 months, total 110.4 UF.
• Sandra Jimena Romero Rubilar, RUT 17.172.509-7, commune of San Ignacio: 6 UF monthly, 12 months, total 72 UF.
• María Isabel Constanzo Hidalgo, RUT 11.772.515-4, commune of Trehuaco: 7.5 UF monthly, 12 months, total 90 UF.

The document establishes that it will be the responsibility of the Housing and Urbanization Service of the Ñuble Region to determine the payment mechanism for the additional subsidies, ensuring their correct application.

Halted works and lack of budget availability

The recitals explain that María Isabel Constanzo Hidalgo was a beneficiary of the subsidy from the 2023 call for the Rural Habitability Program, while the subsidies for Victoria Quintana Rivas and Sandra Romero Rubilar were aligned with the same program in 2018, without any of the three having yet received their definitive housing.

In the case of the first two, the delay is due to problems that arose during the execution of the project for the Nuevos Horizontes Anexo II Housing Complex, in the commune of San Ignacio, which is currently halted and awaiting the re-contracting of works. In the case of Constanzo Hidalgo, the delay is due to the realization and materialization of her housing solution under the On-Site Resident Construction typology.

The resolution further states that the Regional Ministerial Secretary (Seremi) of Housing and Urbanism of the Ñuble Region returned the three direct allocation requests via ordinary official letter No. 307, dated July 23, 2026, due to a lack of budgetary availability, despite the families meeting the criteria of circular No. 10 of 2016. In response, the Acting Director of Serviu Ñuble Region requested the Minister to grant the resources directly via ordinary official letter No. 1,555, dated July 24, 2026.

Technical support for the allocation

The decision is based on the socio-housing reports of the three beneficiaries, prepared between June and July 2026 by professionals from the Social Housing Management Unit of Serviu Ñuble Region, and on ordinary official letters No. 1,295, No. 1,373, and No. 1,462 from that service.

According to the text, the current residential conditions of the three families indicate security and health reasons that compromise their physical integrity and their lives, added to the high economic and social vulnerability of the family groups, the lack of basic services, and the presence of health difficulties. The instrument was signed by Minister Iván Poduje Capdeville and transcribed by Undersecretary Natalia Aguilar Bravo.

The publication allows the three families to access temporary shelter while the delivery of their permanent homes is resolved, and evidences the exceptional mechanism that the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism activates when a housing project stops and the respective Seremi lacks its own budgetary margin to respond to the urgency.

Source: Official Gazette of the Republic of Chile, No. 44,560, Monday, September 28, 2026, Section II, pp. 1-3 (official reference: CVE 2873618).