Manila City gov’t buys P111-M private lot for housing program
(FILE PHOTO) Informal settlers’ dwellings packed collectively aspect by aspect alongside the waterway of P. Casal bridge in Quiapo, Manila City. INQUIRER PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines — Manila City Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso signed on Wednesday the deed of absolute sale for the acquisition of a P111-million private land for the native authorities’s socialized housing program.
According to Moreno, town authorities was capable of purchase the 6,003-square meter lot situated at Pasigline in Sta. Ana by Ordinance No. 8115, which was enacted in 2006. This land acquisition is seen to learn greater than 600 households.
He stated the lot will probably be used for the “Land for the Landless” program of the Manila Urban Settlements Office, which was tasked to offer enough help to landless, poor, low-income casual settlers, and homeless households.
Moreno stated the native authorities is dedicated to offering “ample and livable” areas for constituents to get pleasure from a extra respectable city dwelling within the City of Manila.
“We will not stop until we have safe and decent communities that every Manileño will be proud of,” he stated in an announcement.
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