Pagadian City extends financial assistance to informal settler-families

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PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, Feb. 18 (PNA) -- The city government has extended initial financial assistance to 40 informal settler-families who voluntarily demolished their shanties to be transferred to this city’s relocation site.

They were among the 500 informal settler-families staying at the coast of Barangay Sta. Lucia that will be transferred to the resettlement site of the city government in Barangay Bolatoc.

Mayor Romeo Pulmones said Wednesday they are the first batch of families to be accommodated this month at the resettlement site.

Pulmones said that each of the 40 families, who transferred on Tuesday to the resettlement site, received Php3,000 as initial financial assistance from the city government for the purchase of their immediate needs.

He said the city government have ferried the materials of houses that were demolished to the resettlement site while the construction of houses at the resettlement site will be jointly undertaken by the Army’s 52nd Engineering Battalion, 53rd Infantry Battalion, and the provincial and local police offices.

Pulmones said the establishment of the resettlement site is a joint project of the city government and the National Housing Authority (NHA) aimed to relocate the informal settlers from the coastal areas of this city, which are vulnerable to storms surges.

 

He said those informal settlers will only pay a minimal monthly amortization for the lot awarded to them at the resettlement area. (PNA)
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