‘Stop P7.9-B Leyte flood control project’
MANILA, Philippines - Survivors of Super Typhoon Yolanda asked President Aquino yesterday to postpone the construction of the P7.9-billion flood control project in Leyte.
“We are not against the national government’s plan to build a dike as protection against storm surges, but 10,000 families currently living in the project site are at risk of losing their homes again because until now, the promised permanent housing units are yet to be seen,” Yolanda survivors stated in their letter to the President.
They were referring to the road heightening and tide embankment project along the 27.3-kilometer shoreline from Tacloban City to Tanauan.
The survivors said the area is home to more than 10,000 families displaced by Yolanda waiting to be given permanent housing units.
Only 534 of the target 13,801 permanent houses for Yolanda survivors have so far been built, data from the National Housing Authority showed.
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