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{"id":30031,"date":"2014-09-09T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.occasionalplanet.org\/?p=30031"},"modified":"2017-07-22T11:42:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T16:42:11","slug":"trying-to-make-sense-of-colombias-strata-economic-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2014\/09\/09\/trying-to-make-sense-of-colombias-strata-economic-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to make sense of Colombia\u2019s \u201cStrata\u201d economic system"},"content":{"rendered":"
When I first moved here, the Colombian concept of Strata was one of the most difficult things for me to get my head around. Colombia defines economic difference within a unique legal framework, called “strata.”<\/p>\n
The house or apartment building that you live in is designated by a government body as being in a zone or stratum, 1 through 6; those in Estrato 1 supposedly are those in the poorest urban areas and those in 6 in the richest. Accordingly and depending on where you live, you have a different tax rate and you pay very different rates for your public utilities. Public utilities include gas, electricity, water, and telephone. More or less, in terms of taxes and monthly bills, the government has outlined how the rich living in Estrato 5 and 6 need to pitch in to help the poor, those who live in Estrato 1 and 2. This exchange is often referred to as cross-class subsidy. Bottom line, the rich pay more, the poor pay less.<\/p>\n
This has been going on for more than 30 years, made possible by a series of laws that began to come into effect in the 1980\u2019s. A 1994 law specifically outlines how municipalities should classify their populations based on the characteristics of their housing, taking into account criteria such as garage, front yard, facade, construction materials, access roads and neighborhood. Basically, the distribution of social subsidy is based on a subjective visual perception of your place of residence. Income is not one of the criteria used.<\/p>\n