Abinader hands property titles to 2,500 families in El Almirante II in the Dominican Republic

President Luis Abinader handed out definitive property titles on Sunday to 2,500 families in the El Almirante II neighborhood, in Santo Domingo Este, in a ceremony benefiting about 13,000 people and giving them legal security over the land where they built their homes.

This is the second title delivery in the neighborhood, where 1,500 families had previously benefited, bringing the total number of households helped to 4,000. The full project covers 6,500 titles and will benefit about 45,000 people in the municipality of Santo Domingo Este, according to the Presidency.

Abinader said the delivery is an act of social justice for families who lived for decades without the document proving them owners. “This is also economic development, because now you have much more, you have real assets for yourselves and for your families,” he said during the ceremony.

Duarte Méndez, executive director of the State Land Titling Technical Executing Unit, explained that the process represents savings of RD$200 million for the families, the amount they would have had to pay if the procedure had been done privately. The titled land covers 507,699.82 square meters, within parcel 1-B-REF of Cadastral District No. 06.

The president announced that next week he will continue delivering titles in Sabana Perdida and that in a few weeks he will return to El Almirante to hand out another 2,500 certificates and complete the project's 6,500. His schedule this Sunday continues in Bonao, where he will inaugurate a government office building and a school, and in Villa Altagracia, where he will open another elementary school.

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