The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has directed barangays to conduct an inventory of the informal settler families (ISFs) living along Manila Bay’s shoreline and the bay’s tributaries, an official said yesterday. “We have a baseline and if (the number of ISFs) grow higher, we will have a basis to file administrative cases against barangay captains who allowed more ISFs in their barangays,” DILG Undersecretary for operations Epimaco Densing said in Filipino during an interview over radio dzBB. He said the proliferation of informal settlers along the waterways leading to Manila Bay is an obstacle to the bay’s rehabilitation.

Cabrera, R., & Macairan, E. (2019, February 3). DILG: Inventory Manila Bay's informal settlers. The Philippine Star, p. 12.