Because FUNDASAL's "site and service" approach was in accord with
the policies then advocated by the World Bank, it received Bank funding in
l974. By the late l970s,
FUNDASAL's production of housing units represented almost half of
the total annual number of new formal housing units in El Salvador's urban
areas (Schmidt l993). All FUNDASAL communities had by then completed
construction of community centers, schools, cooperatives, parks or gardens,
and pedestrian pathways and taken over responsibility for garbage collection
and other services.
A number of factors contributed to FUNDASAL's high quality of