{"id":162939,"date":"2021-08-16T05:22:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T09:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=162939"},"modified":"2021-08-16T11:58:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T15:58:06","slug":"building-materials-have-gone-way-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/08\/16\/building-materials-have-gone-way-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Building materials have gone way up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Materiales-de-Construccion-Diario-Libre-1024x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-162998\" width=\"600\" height=\"312\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It is probably not a surprise to anyone who has built anything from a cottage to an apartment complex. Still, according to the Regional Center for Sustainable Economic Strategies (CREES in Spanish), the prices of building materials have gone up over 25% so far this year. The information is based on data from the National Statistics Office (ONE) that studies the direct costs of building housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Association of Housing Builders and Promoters (ACOPROVI) says prices have risen 31.5%. Some of this is the direct result of shipping difficulties caused by the Covid-19 virus that upset the world\u2019s economy and transport from China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One official recognition of this increase is that the government has sought a modification of the law that covers the housing market in the Dominican Republic. The amendment increases the low-cost housing unit price to RD$4.5 million, rather than the present RD$3.5 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/destacado\/republica-dominicana-registra-mayor-numero-de-alzas-en-precios-de-materiales-de-vivienda-producto-del-covid-19\/\">El Caribe <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 August 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is probably not a surprise to anyone who has built anything from a cottage to an apartment complex. Still, according to the Regional Center for Sustainable Economic Strategies (CREES in Spanish), the prices of building materials have gone up over 25% so far this year. The information is based on data from the National &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/08\/16\/building-materials-have-gone-way-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163000,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162939\/revisions\/163000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}