Friday, May 21, 2010

FLATFORM ON URBAN POOR

Source: http://www.noynoy.ph/v3/platform.php, Accessed 05/21/2010 From government anti-poverty programs that instill a dole-out mentality? to well-considered programs that build capacity and create opportunity among the poor and the marginalized in the country. Source: http://www.noynoy.ph/v3/platform.php, Accessed 05/21/2010 Action Plan We commit ourselves to the following goals and principles:     No evictions without decent relocation.     We will end illegal forced evictions. We will not allow any public or private authority to evict families and leave them homeless in the street. The government must provide decent relocation, near-city or in-city, if possible, quality housing, adequate basic services and jobs.     We will not tolerate...

Monday, May 10, 2010

LUPANG ARENDA OFF LIMITS TO SQUATTERS

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...

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