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Monday, February 27, 2017
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ILOILO City – To curb the proliferation of professional squatters, the Iloilo City Urban Poor Affairs Office (ICUPAO) plans to reactivate the City Anti-Squatting Committee.
The initiative is being considered to complement the proposed digital mapping of informal settlers, said ICUPAO chief Jeck Conlu.
ICUPAO is conducting a revalidation of beneficiaries of the city government’s housing projects.
Some awardees failed to occupy the areas given them and remained in their old dwellings.
The revival of the anti-squatting committee will be raised during the meeting of the local housing board this week.
The meeting will also discuss, among others, the coming up of a master list of recipients of this city’s housing projects and anticipated beneficiaries.
The local housing board serves as the policy-making body and ICUPAO is the implementing arm.
They will also tackle the proposed shift in priorities, this time to focus on those with ejectment cases. Previously, those prioritized were residents living in danger zones and those affected by government projects.
On the other hand, Conlu said they now entertain the possibility of medium-rise buildings to accommodate more beneficiaries rather than provide them with individual house and lots.
“We don’t have lands anymore. With the 12,000 we need more than a hundred hectares just to accommodate them,” he explained. (PNA)
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