Dwellers of Gualey They stated that no authority of the Ministry of Works Public has approached them to discuss the issue of eviction under the 17th bridge that will be intervened by that entity and stated that they have been waiting for more than four years to be relocated somewhere else.
They explained that some families They were already evicted and most of them were given a trifle that didn’t even allow them to buy an “improvement” somewhere else. In the neighborhood there is confusion and uncertainty in response to the announcement made by the minister of Works Public that some 40 would be “demobilized” families.
Beatriz Sánchez, lives under the bridge and says that they were already censused by the Unit for the Readaptation of Neighborhoods and Environments (City), but it has been unofficially reported that the eviction is in charge of Ministry of Works Public to intervene on the bridge.
“They haven’t told us anything, here in this little piece there are about 10 houses left,” he said while waiting for the authorities to define his situation.
Altagracia Paulino was already evicted and he claims that they only gave him 350,000 pesos for his house, money that he cannot afford to buy anywhere else. He had to stay at one of his sons’ house under the bridge.
While Manuel Noboa said that the only ones who have visited them are the technicians from Citybut as far as is known, they are not responsible for the eviction. He indicated that their houses have been covered with materials and the land from the work being done on 17 Backing Street.
Because there are not many neighbors near her homes, Altagracia del Rosario cries out for a solution to the uncertainty in which they live. He said the place has become dangerous and on one occasion they robbed her while entering her home. Understand that they are part of the Nuevo Domingo Savio project that ends precisely under the bridge.
The improvised
like him Ministry of Works Public asked Citygiven his experience in the Nuevo Domingo Savio, who will make a census about the homes that would be evicted to rehabilitate the 17th bridge, some people believe that the census is to continue the recovery from the banks of the Ozama and began to build shacks on the banks of the river.
Overnight dozens of little housesin which there is no room for a family, were built in case a materializes eviction. Most of the little houses are built in tins and are empty.
Not even two months ago the hotbed of little housesattached to each other, were raised since the news of the census. It is already a custom that since the authorities carry out a census On the banks of the Ozama and Isabela rivers there are people who begin to build so that they can be included in compensation or housing plans.
