Overview
- The city announced on Wednesday that it had recovered 1,000 properties occupied since 2024 and formally returned them to their legal owners.
- The 1,000th recovery was a police eviction of a gallery and adjacent lot at Cafayate 1642 in Mataderos that had been occupied for about 15 years.
- Authorities say the operations rely on coordinated court orders, the Policía de la Ciudad and multiple city agencies that also record occupant needs and provide social assistance when minors or vulnerable people are involved.
- Recovered sites include private homes, family hotels, ex‑factories, whole buildings and patrimonial properties, with the largest numbers in Balvanera (130), La Boca (63), Almagro (53), Constitución (52) and Flores (43).
- Owners at a city event described long legal battles that in some cases lasted decades, the administration values the restitutions at over USD 500 million, and officials say the milestone could lead to further legal and policy measures to deter future usurpations.