TACLOBAN CITY, March 9 (PNA) -- More than two years after supertyphoon
"Yolanda" flattened this city, 800 more families will move to
permanent shelter in northern villages, an official of the National Housing
Authority (NHA) said.
Marlyn Lauzon, NHA project manager said that starting March 29, families
temporarily housed in bunkhouses will transfer to their permanent houses in
Ridgeview Park 1 in Tagpuro village.
This has been approved during the meeting of the Sub-Local Inter-Agency
Committee (Sub-LIAC) last March 3, which was attended by officials of the
Department of Social Welfare and Development, NHA, and the City Housing Office,
according to Lauzon.
Certificates of occupancy are now being readied by the City Engineer’s
Office.
The Sub-LIAC hopes to transfer 40 families daily. The target is that by
April 20, all bunkhouses would be empty.
Social Welfare Sec. Corazon Soliman was criticized for failure to
transfer all the typhoon victims residing in temporary shelters by the end of
2015.
Lauzon said there were lots of challenges met by the committee hounding
the transfer last year, but pointed out that the agency already transferred
nearly 1,000 households to their permanent shelters.
The priority of the government to be transferred is in no-build zones
identified by the City DSWD office.
“The NHA is still on target and people should understand the process not
blame the government on slow-paced implementation,” Lauzon said.
“In the beginning it was a big challenge for the agencies and its
partners. Issues like land acquisition, site development, environmental
certificate approval from Environmental Management Bureau and Mines Geosciences
Bureau, drainage, sewerage, site evaluation among others,” she recalled.
“Not to mention, after Yolanda there were typhoons like Ruby (Hagupit),
Nona and others plus the weather is either wet or more wet. But I tell you, the
houses NHA built are resilient and typhoon resistant, aside from beautifully
designed.”
JMC/SQM/VICKY C. ARNAIZ/EGR
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