Santo Domingo. – After listening to the vicissitudes and claims that some 50 families from Hoyo de La Zurza have been making since 2004, the Ombudsman, Pablo Ulloa, promised to accompany them in their struggle to achieve decent housing.
Those affected who were provisionally relocated to the banks of the Isabela River to make way for the construction of the Santo Domingo Metro, ask the Government to fulfill the promise to assign them a housing solution, as happened with the first group of 81 beneficiaries.
“We have come to collect information so that everything is done within the framework of the law and justice,” said Pablo Ulloa during a visit to families living in poverty and indigence due to the deterioration of the temporary houses.
Ulloa listened to the complaints and demands made for 18 years by the Hoyo de la Zurza Pro-development Commission, chaired by Father Joselito Beltré, as well as Víctor Manuel Cortorreal, spokesman for the Monitoring Commission; Viola Díaz, from the Integral Environmental Sanitation Foundation (FUNSAI) and Francisco Reyes and those affected.
During the visit, the official was accompanied by a delegation, toured the ravines that were semi-destroyed by inclement weather and received copies of the letters of guarantee for decent housing from the Dominican State delivered by the Office for the Reorganization of Public Transportation (OPRET). ), in the year 2004.
Victor Cortorreal recounted there what they have been so many years of struggle, the conditions in which they live and the danger to which they are exposed on the banks of the river, especially in the rainy season when their houses seem to float on the water.
He explained that in the governments of Leonel Fernández they managed to relocate 81 families, in the mandates of Danilo Medina they did not achieve a “single block”, but that at this time they feel hope that there will be a prompt solution to their case. They thanked the Ombudsman for giving them support.
ground of contention
The Ombudsman also visited some land selected and measured by OPRET for the construction of houses located on the river bank, which the director of the Santo Domingo Aqueduct and Sewer System (CAASD), Fellito Suvervi, allegedly intends to relocate other people who They live in other neighborhoods.
