Action was needed now to prevent the national repair bill - which includes 1.8m properties which are officially unfit forhumanhabitation - from getting worse.
Le Corbusier's were wrecked by the adoption of high rises forhumanhabitation - something he never envisaged, believing that most people should live in comparatively low-rise apartment buildings.
Opportunities in tourism and fishing have tempted mainlanders to the islands in recent years: the population, swollen by now to 16, 000-plus, has been rising by 6% a year, increasing pressures on the 97% of the archipelago classified since 1959 as national park and not forhumanhabitation.