120 Marawi families find new homes 4 years after siege
RESETTLED. Marawi City families displaced by the 2017 siege find new homes in Darussalam Village, Barangay Dulay Proper. A total of 120 families received their certificates of award on Thursday (July 22, 2021). (Photo courtesy of Task Force Bangon Marawi)
Families displaced after their houses were burned during the 2017 Marawi Siege now have permanent shelters in two sites here. They are the 170 families who were barred from going back to no-build zones, or those within the three to six-meter easement of Lake Lanao, within the river
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banks, and within the reclamation area. Marawi Mayor Majul Gandamra said in a statement on Saturday that the former location of the displaced families’ homes will have infrastructures like barangay complex, health center, school, museum, hospital, market, and public park.
“These families were informed that the areas where they built their houses before are owned by the government, based on the assessment of the City Assessor’s Office. That is why the government is building them permanent houses in the areas purchased by the government,” he said. Caraga INFOCUS