El Caribe is reporting today that the reconstruction efforts in Puerto Plata and Santiago have caused some discontent among the displaced and homeless. Favoritism is being alleged by some, and in other areas people are taking the reconstruction into their own hands because the government has said that it will only rebuild for the poor. In Puerto Plata the government gave RD$10 million to the local government, to be spent, according to Jose Ramon Torres, on wood, nails, hinges and tin roofing to build the most modest homes. Even Bishop Nicanor Pena, a member of the recovery commission, has voiced his opinion that the work is not being done equitably or evenly. In Santiago, one month after the 6.5 earthquake took its toll there, the reconstruction that must be done by the government has not even begun, according to Ramon Gomez, the provincial governor. A total of 164 buildings were damaged in the quake, however, Gio de la Cruz, the local director of Civil Defense, told reporters that some houses, like those in the Cristo Rey slum, would not qualify for assistance as they were built in inappropriate locations.