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By: Joyce Pangco Pañares/ Manila Standard Today
President Gloria Arroyo has ordered the Laguna Lake Development to Authority to immediately relocate close to 200,000 informal settlers living in the east corridor of Metro Manila along the shoreline of the Laguna de Bay.
“The President us instructed to focus the logistics for the rehabilitation of Lupang Arenda to move out informal settlers to safer grounds,” LLDA general manager Edgardo Manda said after Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting.
He said the families facing eviction would be moved to suitable homesites in twwo Rizal towns—Rodriguez and Baras—through the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council.
Last February, Mrs. Arroyo revoked two proclamations establishing resettlement areas at Lupang Arenda in Taytay and at the Manggahan Floodway Complex to forcibly transfer illegal settlers whose houses were blocking the natural water pathway to Laguna lake.
“The recent strong typhoons (Ondoy and Pepeng) and the consequent flooding endangered the lives and damaged the properties of the people living in these sites. There is an urgency to address flooding in Metro Manila by removing obstructions and rehabilitating waterways,” she said in Executive Order 854.
Proclamation 704, signed by former President Fidel Ramos, has converted a portion of Sitio Tapayan in Taytay into a resettlement area, known as Lupang Arenda, for squatters living along Pasig River.
Proclamation 160, signed by Mrs. Arroyo in 2006, reserved 20 parcels of land at the Manggahan Floodway Complex for medium-rise socialized and low-cost housing to shelter 6,700 urban poor families in Rizal.
She said a two-year Comprehensive Rehabilitation Plan would cover a relocation program for the displaced families.
“Residents of the areas affected by the revocation of the proclamations who have already been censused or awarded certificates of lot awards will be given priority in the selection of beneficiaries in the relocation program,” Mrs. Arroyo said. Joyce Pangco Pañares
President Gloria Arroyo has ordered the Laguna Lake Development to Authority to immediately relocate close to 200,000 informal settlers living in the east corridor of Metro Manila along the shoreline of the Laguna de Bay.
“The President us instructed to focus the logistics for the rehabilitation of Lupang Arenda to move out informal settlers to safer grounds,” LLDA general manager Edgardo Manda said after Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting.
He said the families facing eviction would be moved to suitable homesites in twwo Rizal towns—Rodriguez and Baras—through the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council.
Last February, Mrs. Arroyo revoked two proclamations establishing resettlement areas at Lupang Arenda in Taytay and at the Manggahan Floodway Complex to forcibly transfer illegal settlers whose houses were blocking the natural water pathway to Laguna lake.
“The recent strong typhoons (Ondoy and Pepeng) and the consequent flooding endangered the lives and damaged the properties of the people living in these sites. There is an urgency to address flooding in Metro Manila by removing obstructions and rehabilitating waterways,” she said in Executive Order 854.
Proclamation 704, signed by former President Fidel Ramos, has converted a portion of Sitio Tapayan in Taytay into a resettlement area, known as Lupang Arenda, for squatters living along Pasig River.
Proclamation 160, signed by Mrs. Arroyo in 2006, reserved 20 parcels of land at the Manggahan Floodway Complex for medium-rise socialized and low-cost housing to shelter 6,700 urban poor families in Rizal.
She said a two-year Comprehensive Rehabilitation Plan would cover a relocation program for the displaced families.
“Residents of the areas affected by the revocation of the proclamations who have already been censused or awarded certificates of lot awards will be given priority in the selection of beneficiaries in the relocation program,” Mrs. Arroyo said. Joyce Pangco Pañares
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