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Island focus: Slum dwellers’ homes to be upgraded
The Surakarta administration in Central Java plans to rebuild thousands of homes in slums spread across the city, which house about 13,000 structures, which have been deemed unfit for habitation
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he Surakarta administration in Central Java plans to rebuild thousands of homes in slums spread across the city, which house about 13,000 structures, which have been deemed unfit for habitation.
Saryanto, the residential and land unit head of the Surakarta Housing Agency, said they planned to refurbish the condemned houses in the next five years. The project will revamp the floors, roofs and walls.
“There are 40,000 people living in 13,000 condemned houses. Illegal settlements built on state land will not be part of the program,” Saryanto said on Tuesday.
The project’s funds will be disbursed through a “city without slum areas” program called Kotaku. “We will speed up the project within two years. There is a Rp 7.5 billion [US$563,000] fund from the central government,” Surakarta Mayor FX Hadi “Rudy” Rudyatmo said.
