CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga – Some 668 families residing along the Philippine National Railways (PNR) tracks here have received Certificates of Lot Award (CELA) from the City Government of San Fernando through its Local Housing and Settlement Division.
The recipients were from Barangays San Jose, San Juan, Juliana, Sto. Nino and Dolores.
They qualified for the awarding after being verified and approved by the Local Inter-Agency Committee composed of this city, Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC), Presidential Commission on Urban Poor (PCUP) and PNR.
City Mayor Edwin Santiago said the move is pursuant to Executive Order No. 48 declaring non-core properties of the Philippine National Railways as socialized housing sites and providing for the disposition of the same to bona fide occupants.
The project gives Fernandinos the opportunity to have tenurial security on their properties and an assurance to acquire the lots on which their houses or structures are built.
“They will no longer fear losing their homes because they now have proper documents to settle their ownership,” Santiago added. (PNA) LAP/ZST/MDDR