Ilang-Ilang D. Quijano – Where Did P11-B DAP For Urban Poor Housing Go?

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An urban poor community in an area the government considers “danger zone” in Metro Manila. Macky Macaspac/PW File Photo -

An urban poor community in an area the government considers “danger zone” in Metro Manila. Macky Macaspac/PW File Photo –

July 2014. Urban poor residents in Metro Manila and off-city relocation sites are questioning where the billions of pesos in Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) funds meant for their housing went—and it seems like they have every reason to.
Former residents of Sitio San Roque, North Triangle, Quezon City today staged a protest at the National Housing Authority (NHA) office in Rodriguez (Montalban), Rizal to demand where the the P450 Million supposedly allocated for them under the DAP went.
Among the list of DAP projects released by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) last July 14 was a P450-M resettlement program for 10,000 North Triangle residents affected by the establishment of a business district in QC.
These funds, which supposedly went to the construction of medium-rise buildings (MRB) in Camarin, Caloocan City for the residents, were released to the NHA in 2011.
Jennie Espacio, a former leader in North Triangle and now a relocatee in Southville village, Brgy. San Isidro in Montalban, however, said that most of the residents were relocated by the government not to Caloocan, but to off-city relocation sites.

Read more: http://pinoyweekly.org/b-dap-for-urban-poor-housing-go/

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