Fernandez inaugurates projects

[NewsWhore]

President Leonel Fernandez inaugurated a housing project in La Vega, two bridges (I and II on the Manabao highway), and newly paved roads in the mountain municipality of Jarabacoa . During the inaugural yesterday, he said that this had involved an expenditure totaling RD$469.6 million. In all, 144 families made homeless by tropical storms Olga and Noel will be housed in the complex. Fernandez personally handed apartment keys to 30 families. The remaining units will be divided up and allocated by a committee. Housing Institute (INVI) director Alma Fernandez (no relation) said the government still has to deliver another 1,118 housing units to victims of the tropical storms that hit the country in late 2007. A note of tension was provoked during the celebrations when one community leader asked Fernandez about progress on the second phase of the housing complex, the aqueduct and street repairs that also had been promised by the President. Fernandez was not able to provide an answer.

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