The government will relocate a total of 157 families that, according to a source linked to the Ministry of Public Works and Land Planning, registered in 2012 and 2013 to be relocated in the initial phase of the project.
Speaking to the Angolan newspaper Jornal de Angola, the same source informed that in this initial phase a total of 942 citizens will be relocated, which make up the 157 families. He said that the citizens will be placed in T2 and T3 houses in the Mayé Mayé project.
The houses will be assigned based on the household and on the size of the dwellings that the families had in the Boavista neighborhood.
"The Mayé Mayé housing project, ordered to be built by the State in order to rehouse families that live in risk areas or where the State intends to create other infrastructures, already has electricity, potable water and spaces are reserved for health posts and police stations," said the source in charge.
The Ministry of Education, according to the same source, assured that the children that attended schools in the Boavista district will be integrated in the schools of the urban district of Sequele.
He also clarified that "the rehousing process was slow to happen" and so, during the years that passed between the registrations and the start of the project "updates were only made with those responsible for the Residents' Commission of the Boavista Neighborhood, in order to prevent opportunistic individuals from sabotaging the rehousing by infiltrating people who were strangers to the process."
Despite being late, the families are happy with the news. Fadário Cândido, president of the Residents' Commission of Bairro da Boavista, applauded the work that is underway and said that the families are happy to receive new housing.
"Here in Boavista there are many alleys and the houses were built without any security. And when it rains, the families suffer a lot and this has been going on for more than 20 years. This relocation, although late, will take people out of the suffocation, because we were tired of waiting," he said, quoted by Jornal de Angola.
The rehousing process is the result of a work of the Ministry of Public Works and Land Planning in conjunction with the Administrative Commission of the City of Luanda, the National Police and the Civil Protection and Fire Services.
