Opposition senator Rissa Hontiveros
has a different take on the Duterte administration’s Golden Age of Philippine
Infrastructure program more known as the BUILD BUILD BUILD.
The Liberal Party senator is pushing
for the building of “humane” relocation sites for informal settlers, in a
Senate press release.
The government’s BUILD BUILD BUILD
has its primordial target of accelerating infrastructure development that has
hampered the progress of the country.
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Hontiveros, has called out the
Duterte administration to prioritize Filipinos that has been displaced by the
project.
“As developments expand at a bullish
pace and infrastructure becomes a main priority, informal settlers face the
real problem of displacement,” she said.
“Dapat may
‘build, build, build’ program din ang gobyerno ng mga makataong relocation
sites para sa ating mga informal settlers.”
(The government should also have a "build,
build, build" program of humane relocation sites for our informal
settlers.)
The opposition senator has filed Senate
Bill 167 or the “On-Site, In-City and Near-City Resettlement
Program” in the 18th Congress. The bill seeks to provide housing based on
proposals submitted by the affected informal settler families.
As Housing and Urban Development
Coordinating Council, there are 2.5 million informal settler families,
according to the lady senator.
“For so long as
we do not legislate and refine the resettlement process, we are enabling the
displacement of thousands of people who deserve to call the Philippines home as
much as any other Filipino does,” the senator said.
“Let us not
allow progress to serve only the few.”
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