At least 200 urban poor families living along Apolonio Samson Road near Balintawak Market brace possible demolition of their homes early this morning as the 7-day notice of eviction served by the Quezon City government last Oct 5 expires today.
As early as 5am, residents have prepared the community barricade anticipating an early morning demolition.
As of press time, residents have monitored demolition team stationed at the Barangay Hall waiting for order to dismantle the homes along A. Samson Road.
Ayala's 'Cloverleaf'
An Ayala-owned mixed-used business center called 'Cloverleaf' to be built in the Balintawak area which requires the demolition of informal settler colonies and at least 8 big markets in the area.
Last month, owners of the said markets were given a 60-day 'grace period' to renovate the markets to comply with the sanitation standards imposed by the local government of QC.
Meanwhile, as residents face imminent threat of demolition this morning, they have called on presidential candidates who are running for office next year to help them in the their fight against the demolition of their homes and the Balintawak markets which are source of livelihood to most residents.
However, some residents have slammed Liberal Party standard-bearer and former DILG Secretary Mar Roxas for allegedly mishandling the fund supposedly for the housing program of the residents.
Recently, Roxas handed over P100-M to the local government of QC supposedly for the housing of informal settlers in Barangay Apolonio Samson.
According to Zenaida Ogaya, secretary of Samahang Apolonio Samson, Balintawak, Inc., who attended the turn-over of fund in a local basketball court last August, residents still have not received any housing program nor financial assistance from the LGU even as demolition of their homes is looming.
This afternoon, A. Samson residents will be joining other urban poor groups in QC in a protest in time with Mayor Herbert Bautista's State of the City Address at the City Hall.
Residents will be forwarding their demand for decent in-city if not onsite-housing program for the residents.
Zero-Vote Campaign vs Bistek
Meanwhile, the protest at the City Hall this afternoon will call for Zero-Vote Campaign against Mayor Bautista who is reported to run as senator in the 2016 election.
The campaign according to urban poor group Kadamay is an answer to the Zero-Informal Policy which the Bautista administration has implemented since 2010.
Protesters will call on the LGU to scrap plans to build 'Cloverleaf' business center in the Balintawak area, as well as other Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects in the city including the QC-Central Business Project in the North and East Triangle areas, the Controlled Economic Zone in the National Government Center area, and waterways clearing.
According to Kadamay, in the last five years, tens of thousands of QC urban poor have been transferred to off-city relocation sites in Bulacan and Rizal, to give way to this PPP projects which only benefit the big local and foreign businesses. ###
As early as 5am, residents have prepared the community barricade anticipating an early morning demolition.
As of press time, residents have monitored demolition team stationed at the Barangay Hall waiting for order to dismantle the homes along A. Samson Road.
Ayala's 'Cloverleaf'
An Ayala-owned mixed-used business center called 'Cloverleaf' to be built in the Balintawak area which requires the demolition of informal settler colonies and at least 8 big markets in the area.
Last month, owners of the said markets were given a 60-day 'grace period' to renovate the markets to comply with the sanitation standards imposed by the local government of QC.
Meanwhile, as residents face imminent threat of demolition this morning, they have called on presidential candidates who are running for office next year to help them in the their fight against the demolition of their homes and the Balintawak markets which are source of livelihood to most residents.
However, some residents have slammed Liberal Party standard-bearer and former DILG Secretary Mar Roxas for allegedly mishandling the fund supposedly for the housing program of the residents.
Recently, Roxas handed over P100-M to the local government of QC supposedly for the housing of informal settlers in Barangay Apolonio Samson.
According to Zenaida Ogaya, secretary of Samahang Apolonio Samson, Balintawak, Inc., who attended the turn-over of fund in a local basketball court last August, residents still have not received any housing program nor financial assistance from the LGU even as demolition of their homes is looming.
This afternoon, A. Samson residents will be joining other urban poor groups in QC in a protest in time with Mayor Herbert Bautista's State of the City Address at the City Hall.
Residents will be forwarding their demand for decent in-city if not onsite-housing program for the residents.
Zero-Vote Campaign vs Bistek
Meanwhile, the protest at the City Hall this afternoon will call for Zero-Vote Campaign against Mayor Bautista who is reported to run as senator in the 2016 election.
The campaign according to urban poor group Kadamay is an answer to the Zero-Informal Policy which the Bautista administration has implemented since 2010.
Protesters will call on the LGU to scrap plans to build 'Cloverleaf' business center in the Balintawak area, as well as other Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects in the city including the QC-Central Business Project in the North and East Triangle areas, the Controlled Economic Zone in the National Government Center area, and waterways clearing.
According to Kadamay, in the last five years, tens of thousands of QC urban poor have been transferred to off-city relocation sites in Bulacan and Rizal, to give way to this PPP projects which only benefit the big local and foreign businesses. ###
So this is the new Cloverleaf Ayala Land Estates
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