Some 3,000 informal settlers along Quezon City waterways and danger zones have until the end of July to leave or face eviction, said Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte.
“We are very serious in removing the informal settlers along waterways and extremely dangerous areas,” the vice mayor said.
Housing Community Development and Resettlement department chief Ramon Asprer said first to be cleared would be the San Juan River, with 2,800 settlers, and the Tullahan River, with 1,620 families.
Belmonte noted that Quezon City has 13,181 informal settler families along waterways and danger zones—the most number in Metro Manila.
“It will be the responsibility of the barangay (village) captains and the local government to ensure that these families will not come back to their old dwellings,” she said.—Julie M. Aurelio