Housing czar Eduardo del Rosario on Monday cited a latest assessment showing that the overall completion rate of the ongoing government rehabilitation effort in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur is now at 68 percent.
“With the progress of different projects being implemented, we can see that every month, there is progress and hopefully some projects can be completed even before December (of this year),” he noted.
“Starting next month, we will either be inaugurating or turning over completed projects,” he added.
He assured the public, especially the Maranaos, that the Task Force Bangon Marawi remains on track to meeting its timeline of finishing all projects within the term of the Duterte administration.
He said the task force is set to award 170 permanent housing units in July, and that there would be ribbon-cutting for three more barangay complexes inside the most affected area.
According to the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development, the construction of road networks in Marawi’s former ground zero is now 70 percent completed.
“The road networks are very important because these will signal for us to allow those residing in Sectors 4 to 9 to come home and build their respective houses by October,” he said.
“So when these road networks are completed as programmed by end of September, starting October, we will allow the entry and construction of private houses by October,” he added.
Del Rosario recently spearheaded the inauguration of the first mosque reconstructed inside Marawi City’s ground zero.