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Bacolod City Mayor Albee Benitez has signed a memorandum of agreement with WRS Holdings, and the Pag-IBIG Fund for the construction of an affordable housing project for informal settlers. Providing better and comfortable homes for all informal settler families (ISF) in Bacolod City is one of the mayor’s flagship programs ever since he started his […]
With an overwhelming 254 votes, the House of Representatives approved on third and final reading a bill mandating local government units (LGUs) to establish an onsite, in-city, or near-city relocation program for urban informal settler families (ISFs) residing within their jurisdictions. House Bill (HB) 5, primarily authored by Speaker Martin Romualdez and Representives Yedda Marie […]
The Quezon City government continues to help informal settler families (ISFs), who have been living in the city for decades fulfill their dreams of having permanent homes. At least 100 families from four homeowner’s associations in Barangay Gulod have received their land titles, through the direct sale and direct purchase program facilitated by their barangay. […]
Informal settlers in Barangay Payatas will finally own the land they are occupying after the Quezon City government acquired the approximately 96,169-square-meter area from Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank). A total of 1,518 families, most of whom have been Payatas residents for 40 years, will benefit from the purchase. They will pay for the […]
The city government of Koronadal is pushing for the development of available public lands into resettlement housing sites for informal settler families. Mayor Eliordo Ogena said he has tasked the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (Cenro) to assess the potential areas and process their titling for the local government. Ogena said among the initial […]
Some 100 informal settler families in Surallah, South Cotabato will finally settle into their “dream homes” with the completion of a P25-million resettlement housing project in the area funded by the National Housing Authority (NHA). NHA officials formally turned over to the municipal government recently the 100 newly completed housing units that were built in […]
Deputy Speaker LRay Villafuerte wants state subsidies for the rentals of eligible informal settlers to encourage them to transfer from danger areas and public and privately-owned lands to permanent homes available in the formal housing market. Villafuerte said his proposed rent subsidies will likewise address the temporary relocation of families displaced by either natural or […]
The government is ramping up efforts for a simultaneous rollout of the Balik Probinsya, Bagong Pag-Asa (BP2) program on June 11, this time for the second batch of qualified beneficiaries who want to return to their provinces in the Visayas and Mindanao, BP2 Council Executive Director Marcelino Escalada Jr. said. Escalada, who is also the […]
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte has committed to provide security of land tenure for around 10,000 informal settler families (ISF) by 2022, under the city’s Local Shelter Plan 2020-2022. The Local Shelter Plan 2020-2022 was presented by the Housing, Community Development and Resettlement Department (HCDRD) during the Quezon City Housing Board meeting on Friday. “One […]
Following his visit fire victims in Lucena, Quezon, Senator-elect Bong Go rushed to visit the 23 families who were left homeless after a fire broke out recently at Phase 1, Ilugin St., Brgy. Pinagbuhatan in Pasig City. As visiting the victims, Go shared that one of his top priorities is to provide housing assistance to […]