The head of the Buenos Aires Government, Jorge Macripresented his plan to prevent slums from continuing to grow in the City of Buenos Aires, with an approach that combines urban control, supervision of social policy and elimination of intermediaries. According to his diagnosis, the urbanization attempts applied in recent years “failed” and ended up consolidating situations of informality and structural poverty.
Macri questioned the model that prioritized the territorial expansion of popular neighborhoods without solving underlying problems. In that sense, he maintained that poorly planned urbanization can encourage new occupations and also generate a negative impact on the middle class, by straining services and infrastructure.
One of the central axes of the plan is the tightening of controls on community kitchens, a policy that led to strong conflict with Juan Grabois. A comprehensive inspection carried out by the Buenos Aires Government detected serious irregularities in the food coverage system.
The crossing of data between the lists presented by the soup kitchens until November 2025 and the official records revealed that they appeared as beneficiaries 454 people diedothers with two or more properties, more than 1,500 with various cars and tens with monthly income greater than $2 and up to $5 millionincluding retirees and monotributistas of high categories.
As a result, the City suspended more than 5,000 servings that could not be justified and closed 40 “ghost” dining roomssome linked to the La Dignidad Popular Movement, an organization related to UTEP. “The business of poverty has a name and a surname,” said Macri, and announced that the complaints are still ongoing.
The Buenos Aires Executive clarified that assistance is not being cut, but rather it is being reorganized. Currently, more than 250,000 people They receive daily food coverage in the City. The difference, they explain, is the new scheme based on direct transfers and an application that allows you to identify beneficiaries, track each ration and detect irregularities in real time.
The Minister of Human Development, Gabriel Mraidamaintained that the inspection made it possible to reconnect families with other social programs and reopen dining rooms under direct management. For the Buenos Aires Government, the objective is clear: to organize social policy to contain the expansion of slums and redefine the role of the State in the most vulnerable sectors.
