In Bakuo, there are fewer self-built single family homes, and more old dwellings (built before 1980), multi-storied buildings with small rooms, and public rental apartments for low income individuals or households.
In neighboring Oakland, the East Bay's largest city, roughly eighty-five per cent of the residential dwellings built before seismic provisions were introduced to building codes remain highly vulnerable to heavy ground shaking.
Thousands of slum dwellings built up the hillsides had collapsed.
Mr Chavez's government aims to get 50,000 low-cost dwellings built this year.
Before the recession over half of new dwellings built were flats, often in northern cities.
There would be 332 dwellings built, of which 25% would be "affordable".
In unregulated housing markets, for example, there are invariably too many dwellings built on flood plains and in earthquake zones.
On one side of the railway, a string of single-storey dwellings, built of brick and tile, have yet to be demolished.
It contains groups of small but well-preserved dwellings built of stone masonry in natural cavities of an overhanging cliff 150 feet (45 metres) high.
Elsewhere, a number of ranch houses and other older homes have been torn down and replaced with large dwellings built out to the permissible limits of the property.
