Venezuelan government vows to build 200,000 houses in 2012

Ricardo Molina, Venezuela's Minister of Housing and Habitat, ratified that the government's goal in 2012 is to build 200,000 houses across the country.

He said that this effort will be part of the Great Mission Housing Venezuela, which built 140,000 housing units in 2011, state-run news agency AVN reported.

This figure includes new dwellings and the replacement of slums with houses.

"We are going to make a greater effort along with the organized people in the construction of 200,000 housing units," Molina said upon his arrival in the National Assembly, where President Hugo Chávez was presenting his annual report and accounts.