[6] Engineers have warned about infrastructure deterioration of program's buildings, and that houses are vulnerable in the event of an earthquake.
If a resident wishes to sell their house within thirty years of taking possession, the government has first refusal.
[2] A panel organized by Transparencia Venezuela in 2016, made up of experts, human rights activists and deputies, determined that the program had little success in reducing poverty during twelve years of its implementation.
In 2018, Efecto Cocuyo's fact checker described the goal as unrealistic as it would require the Venezuelan government to build two houses per minute.
[20] In 2017, the president of the Center of Engineers of the state of Zulia (CIDEZ), Marcelo Monnot, denounced inconsistencies between the figures offered by the national government on the investment in the mission's projects, and estimating that there was a $76 billion deficit, whose destination he demanded to be known.
The president of the CIDEZ Housing Commission, José Contreras, also pointed out inconsistencies in the figures offered by Governor Francisco Arias Cárdenas.
[3] In September 2016, the NGO Transparencia Venezuela issued a bulletin that reported: "There are many housing developments built without the required feasibility and risk studies for buildings, monitoring of bidding control, criteria for the selection of beneficiaries, among other elements, which increases the levels of corruption within the program, accentuates the opacity of information and the right to housing in adequate conditions.
"[3] In 2013, Enzo Betancourt warned about the deterioration of the infrastructure of Misión Vivienda, stating that the Association had constantly called the attention of government authorities.
Betancourt said that as a result of the complaints he had warned that all the phases to be taken into account in the construction of the housing should be completed in the short term, that in spite of the haste with which the executive carried out the project, professional and technical factors should be taken into account so that it could be viable and have an optimum quality, and that all the works of the Housing Mission should have a chronogram of activities to execute the works properly.
[4] In 2016, Enzo Betancourt described as false the figures offered by Nicolás Maduro regarding the delivery of new housing, stating that by that date the works had been paralyzed for three months.
[21] On 30 August 2017, cracks in a Misión Vivienda building in Tanaguarenas, Vargas state, grew larger after a 4.5 magnitude earthquake; residents feared that the damage could cause the structures to collapse.
[22] Gustavo Izaguirre, dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Central University of Venezuela, warned that there have been construction elements that make the buildings vulnerable in the event of an earthquake.