Housing In Colombia In The 1950's

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During the 1950s, citizens of Columbia began to need more tolerable housing in comparison to the ‘Republicano’ homes, which were homes that were constructed on a single level paired with an A-frame roof. • Their need encouraged the investment of high-density public housing projects. This housed many of the lower class citizens of Colombia at the time. • However in the poorer areas, very small houses that the made from cinder blocks and smothered in an adobe made of hay, cow manure, and clay. The repression of the Turkish Ottoman Empire caused many Arab Middle Easterners to escape to the Republic of Colombia. Many came from Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Palestine in order to escape many financial hardships. • When entering the ports of Colombia