More than 100 families bought apartments and houses from the National Housing Institute (INVI) during the last administration, but have not been able to occupy their properties because INVI employees had sold the same properties to several people. Others, who had paid their bills, appear in the computer as owing money because they were given phony receipts. The former director if the INVI, Juan Vargas, refused to talk to reporters about the scandal that has rocked the institution charged with providing affordable housing for the people, limiting himself to admitting he had fired some employees for improper activities. According to the latest information from sources close to the scene, when people arrived at INVI offices to pay their monthly quotas, they were told that ” the system was down” and then given handwritten receipts that were never entered into the computers. There is an INVI file that contains the paperwork of 20 journalists who were able to get apartments one way or another but still have not been able to access their new living quarters.