Two months after the Habagat tragedy, flooded relocatees still suffer from the misery of living in the government's relocation.
Tomorrow, October 11, hundreds of relocatees from Kasiglahan Village in Montalban will march from Philcoa to the main office of National Housing Authority to condemn the agency's attempt to evict them from their homes.
In the aftermath of the Habagat flooding, 1,026 families whose homes were submerged in flood last August have occupied new housing units in the flood-free area of the Kasiglahan Village. Even with a standing order* from the local government of Rodriguez Rizal that they stay in the 'occupied' housing units, agents of NHA escorted by the PNP still force them to leave the new units. Since October 5, the residents have barricaded their homes which had resulted to a violent standoff between the relocatees and NHA agents. Two families of relocatees were forced to leave their occupied units on Friday. A day after, a resident named Noel Briones, 50, had died of heart attack due to stress caused by the housing dispute.
North Triangle residents who face demolition of homes will also join the NHA protest tomorrow also to condemn the effort of the said agency to relocate the residents to the flooded housing units in Kasiglahan Village. Such relocation is also prohibited by the order issued by the local government of Rodriguez, Rizal.
The urban poor groups will then head on to the office of DILG along EDSA to call on the attention of Secretary Mar Roxas to address the matters which involved the LGUs and the PNP.
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