Hon.

Janet de Leon Mercado

Mayor, Municipality of Taytay Rizal
Taytay Municipal Hall, Don Hilario Cruz Street
Taytay, Rizal, 1920

I, Rodolfo L. Lauredo, the owner of the said house demolished in

Highway 2000, Taytay, Rizal last June 2015. I, along with the other
members of the community, believe that the demolishment that took
place was unjust, unlawful, and inhumane.
This belief is derived from the law itself. According the R. A.
7279, otherwise known as the Urban Development Housing Act
of 1992 Art. VII Sec. 28, the following items shall be mandatory in the
execution of eviction or demolition orders involving underprivileged or
homeless citizens. (1) Notice upon the effected persons or
entities at least thirty (30) days prior to the date of eviction of
demolition; (2) Adequate consultations on the matter of
settlement with the duly designated representatives of the
families to be resettled and the affected communities in the
areas where they are to be relocated. These provisions explicitly
stated in the law have been violated by the citys demolishment team,
thus, rendering the demolition that occurred, unjust, unlawful, and
inhume. No notice of demolition was received by any of the residents
of the said community. The order was only given to the community the
day the demolition team of the city arrived to the said area despite the
fact of it being released already last April 2014. There was in no way
that the residents of the affected community were informed of the
upcoming demolition. No consultations on the matter of settlements
took place with the representatives of the families being affected, thus
explicitly violating the provision above.

The eviction order released by the Tanggapan ng Punong

Bayan of Taytay Rizal , which was signed by the Municipal
Administrator, Grace Dei G. De Leon, for Municipal Mayor, Hon.
Janet De Leon Mercado, did also not contain the signatures of the
Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC)
Representative, Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor's
(PCUP) Representative, Municipal Local Government Operations
Officer (MGLOO) Representative, and the Liga ng Barangay
President, despite the fact of them being signatories to this order.

With these arguments being stated, we then ask the Municipal

Mayor to pay for the damages incurred by the damaged party the
amount of PHP Two Hundred Thousand Pesos (P200,000). The
unfortunate and unlawful event that took place in the community has
brought financial, emotional, and moral damages to the member, and I
believe that it is just for the person/s responsible of this act to
compensate for it.

Rodolfo L.
Lauredo