ORION, BATAAN – A housing project considered as the biggest in Bataan is now being prepared for victims of the fire here that rendered more than a thousand families homeless, municipal Mayor Antonio Raymundo announced Tuesday.
Recipients of the project are 1,089 families who were affected by the big fire in sitio Depensa in barangay Capunitan last January 28.
Since then, the families have stayed in evacuation centers with full support from government and non-government organizations.
The mayor said the families will be relocated in 6.8 hectares of land near the sea in Barangay Daan Pari which is about 1.3 kilometers from Depensa.
Raymundo estimated the project to cost P1.18 billion.
The municipal government will provide 3.7 hectares of land while the provincial government 3.1 hectares all valued at P18 million.
The National Housing Authority has allocated almost P1 billion for housing including community center, roads and sort of yacht club for fishing boats, the mayor said.
The relocation site will be named Bataan Discipline Village.
The low-cost housing calls for the construction of several three-storey midrise buildings with 48 families to occupy each building patterned after the housing project in Valenzuela, Bulacan.
Each family space will be paid P300 a month for 30 years. Construction starts next month.
There will be a police outpost, market, commercial establishments, high school, health center, water supply and other amenities in the area, Raymundo said.
The town continued to be placed under a state of calamity as a result of the fire.
No one will be allowed to reconstruct their house in the burned area, the place being subject of mandamus from the Supreme Court in the clean-up of Manila Bay, the mayor said.
