Following an over nine-hour-debate, lawmakers cleared the initiative, both general and particular clauses, with a majority of 469 votes in favor, none against and one abstention, and forwarded it to the Senate for further assessment.

The document statutorily mandates all agricultural, industrial, mining or other enterprises to provide their workers with adequate housing, an obligation they will fulfill through their contributions to the National Housing Fund.

Such a fund will establish “a socially-oriented housing system for eligible working people that will allow them to obtain cheap and adequate credit for their purchase or improvement; they will also be eligible to acquire land and build housing, under the terms established by law,” it says.

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