City awards security of land tenure to 45 families

Thursday, February 16, 2012

THE Iloilo City Government has awarded on Thursday a total of 45 families with security of land tenure in their city-owned occupied lot with a contract to sell and repayment scheme.

Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog conferred the security of land tenure to 31 families in northeast Timawa, Molo district with onsite development and 14 families at the city-owned relocation site in Bitoon, Jaro.

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Iloilo City Urban Poor Affairs Office chief Wilfredo Jurilla said over a thousand urban poor families have already availed themselves of land tenure in five relocation sites and onsite development areas through affordable and minimal repayment scheme to the City Government.

These sites are in San Isidro, La Paz; Baluarte, Molo; South Fundidor, Molo; on top of the recent northeast Timawa and Bitoon sites.

Jurilla said the beneficiaries will pay a minimal average monthly payment of not more than P200 for their occupied land of some 45 to 60 square meters.

The city has devised a payment system of some P500 per square meter with 10 years to pay without interest.

The lot awardees are urban poor families and informal settlers mostly relocated from danger zones or ejected by the private lot owner. (Lydia C. Pendon)