Urban Housing
by: Kaye Magno
Valenzuela City Mayor WES Gatchalian (right) personally gives the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) Secretary Jose Rizalino “Jerry” Acuzar (left) along with Housing and Resettlement Office head Ms. Ellen Reyes (center) a tour of the largest in-city resettlement site in the Philippines, the Disiplina Village Bignay (DVB) on October 10. DVB Houses 3,310 former informal settler families from danger zones, particularly waterways. It is one of the models of public rental housing system in the country. Sec. Acuzar pledged to support other development in the village and in other housing projects in the city. (Kaye Magno, Photo/Text)