THE National Housing Authority will remove 5,000 families in Manila’s Vitas temporary shelters in Tondo and other over 1,500 families in two tenements considered “ruinous and dangerous” to live in.
At a news conference at the NHA central office, Elsie Trinidad, agency spokesperson and resettlement and development services department manager, said the Department of Public Works and Highways had inspected the Vitas temporary housing in Tondo, Fort Bonifacio tenement in Taguig City and Punta tenement in Sta. Ana, Manila, and recommended that occupants of these structures must be evacuated to safer sites.
“The government has recommended a preemptive evacuation since these facilities are unsafe and disaster-prone,” she said.
“The two tenements put up 53 years ago have already outlived their economic life based on the DPWH and local governments' assessment,” she told the Manila Standard.
“Fort Bonifacio and Punta units are condemned and dangerous to live in,” she said.
On the other hand, the Vitas temporary shelter units had been occupied by illegal dwellers when residents of the condemned Vitas tenement were resettled to San Jose del Monte, Bulacan five years ago.
