DILG relocates 135 families from Pasay City waterway

The Department of the Interior and Local Government has helped 135 informal settler families in Barangay 201 in Pasay City move to government housing in Cavite.

 

According to a DILG press statement, the families were moved form Cutcut Creek, which has been identified as a dangerous waterway, to National Housing Authority homes in Trece Martires, Cavite.

 

Personnel from the Pasay City government and the Philippine National Police helped the families move.

 

The Department of Social Welfare and Development will give the families P18,000 each to help them adjust to the move.

The relocation is part of a government plan to move informal settler families away from flood-prone waterways while also clearing the canals and streams for flood control projects. — JDS, GMA News