As a gift of the Valenzuela City government to its informal settlers this Christmas season, Mayor Rex Gatchalian has awarded new houses to about 864 families at the Disiplina Village in Bignay, a joint project of the national government and Valenzuela Cty.
The P1.2-billion housing project for the informal settlers is “the country’s biggest in-city relocation project as of now,” the mayor said.
Vice President Leni Robrero, the former chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council, Valenzuela Rep. Sherwin Gatchalian, and representatives from other national government agencies and private organizations were among the guests.
The DVB is a joint undertaking between the city government and the National Housing Authority aimed at relocating informal settler families who are occupying danger zones, the mayor said.
This community served as the “grandest testament of Valenzuela’s commitment to achieve its self-imposed goal of having ‘Zero-ISFs along Waterways in Valenzuela,’” Gatchalian said.
With a total land area of 111, 293 square meters, about 88,000 sqm of Disiplina Village has been utilized, the mayor said. A total of 3,834 Valenzuelano informal settlers are the target of this housing program, he added. Jun David
By the first quarter of 2017, Phase 2 will open about 28 buildings for some 1,008 families. Phase-3 with 15 buildings is set for 540 informal settlers, followed by Phase- 4 (22 buildings for 792 families) and Phase-5 (18 buildings for 648 ISF).
The event also featured the formal opening of the Disiplina Village Bignay Elementary School, DVB High School, and the DVB multi-purpose covered court, built through the efforts of Valenzuela first district Rep.Wes Gatchalian.
In cooperation with other private partners, Valenzuela will also allotfunds for another four multi-purpose covered courts, a half court, a three-storey multi-purpose day-care center, a chapel and mortuary, a sewer treatment plant, materialrecovery facilities, parks, playgrounds and a transport terminal, the mayor said.
In 2012, the maiden Disiplina Village in Bignay and Ugong was inaugurated for typhoon Ondoy victms.