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[^1]\n\nThe largest finding involves over COP 977 million paid for road works in Los Alpes, Ciudad Bolívar, which remain unfinished despite two contracts signed in 2021 and 2023. [^2]\n\nThe Secretaría Distrital del Hábitat (Bogotá's District Habitat Secretariat) announced the Arrendamiento Temporal Solidario rental subsidy program, with applications open from September 7 to 23, 2026, for vulnerable households in Bogotá. [^3]\n\nSteffi Rosbenisa Acevedo Sánchez, director of Habitat and Environment at the Auditor Office, stated that the impact of the unfinished works falls on a community waiting for safe and functional infrastructure. [^4]\n\nThe Bogotá Auditor Office calculated a total of over COP 1.007 million in presumed damage to public assets from these two cases. [^5]\n\nApplicants must present a current rental contract signed by both parties without authentication, no household member may own property in Colombia (with exceptions), and no one may have already applied a housing subsidy; the benefit cannot be used for rooms in boarding houses, and the housing must be an independent unit in a legalized sector meeting minimum habitability conditions, subject to verification by the Secretariat. [^6]\n\nApplications for the subsidy must be submitted in person; there is no online application process. [^7]\n\nThe subsidy can provide up to 0.62 times the monthly legal minimum wage, equivalent to a maximum of $1,085,561 per month, for up to six months, subject to meeting requirements and validation by the district entity. 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