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The Department of the Interior and Local Government in Central Visayas (DILG-7) has been tapped to help the National Housing Authority (NHA) award housing units to identified “Yolanda” beneficiaries in Cebu. Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said 5,272 housing units have been fully completed for victims of Typhoon Yolanda in Cebu, but only 731 of these […]
Reelectionist Senator Sonny Angara said the country’s housing backlog could balloon up to 12 million by 2030 if left unaddressed and the homeless population could reach crisis proportions unless government steps up efforts to provide them with permanent shelter. “Out of a population of roughly 106 to 108 million Filipinos, some 4.5 million don’t have […]
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles asked local government units to organize or activate their local inter-agency committees (LIACs) to help complete the post-“Yolanda” housing projects. Nograles said more than five years after Super Typhoon “Yolanda” struck central Philippines, some housing units for affected families remain uncompleted while some finished projects are still unoccupied. “We have to […]
A party-list group vying for a seat in Congress this May welcomed what it called the “timely intervention” of Malacañang in efforts to finish the resettlement housing projects for the thousands of families affected by Typhoon Yolanda. “It is the LGUs that are on the ground making sure that their constituents benefit from these programs.” […]
Senator Cynthia Villar commended the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) for donating 5 hectares of land in Tondo, Manila, as relocation site for 2,400 families residing in Parola and Isla Puting Bato in Tondo. Villar, chairperson of the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, has been asking PPA “to do something about the burgeoning number of […]
“We have already done a lot, but there is still more to do. We will not stop until we have done everything for those who have less in life.” This is the promise made by Quezon City 2nd District Rep. Winnie Castelo, after Speaker Gloria Arroyo announced the reconstitution of the Congressional Oversight Panel for […]
Senator Joel Villanueva on his birthday led the turn over of 158 housing units from the National Housing Authority (NHA) to the informal settler families of Bocaue, Bulacan. Villanueva said families who live in waterways and flood-prone areas were prioritized to be relocated at Bocaue Hills AFP-PNP Housing, Barangay Batia in Bocaue, Bulacan. The turn […]