When President Leonel Fernandez visited the northeastern town of Sanchez four months ago, he pledged that the families affected by subsidence would be re-housed. In a report in today’s Diario Libre, the families complain that they are still waiting. The authorities have promised to build new houses for the 190 affected families, whose homes are in danger of collapse due to subsidence on Calle Independencia and in the neighborhoods of La Torre, Johnson and Altamira. The mayor of Sanchez Jesus Calcano says that the families are desperate to be re-housed, but that the Public Works Ministry, which is in charge of the project, is still “at the planning stage”.