City Hall plans to legalise slums

Phnom Penh authorities are to conduct a study in a bid to legalise 200 slum communities in the capital city. City Hall spokesperson Met Meas Pheakdey yesterday said a working team would research how best to beautify the city, including the many slums.
 

“We want to manage these communities and make things tidier. For example, a community may have 100 families living on one hectare of land which they may have taken illegally. It’s difficult to help the residents of these places should something happen to their community,” Mr Meas Pheakdey said. “Frankly speaking, our aim is to organise things; to provide them with land titles and plots of land.
 

“If we are able to help them, we will. We will only reveal the details after we conduct our study.” Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong said in a Facebook post that the study would help improve the livelihoods of some of the city’s poorest as well as improve living conditions in the communities.

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