Housing

In Tacloban, Leyte, Vice President and Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) Chairman Jejomar Binay yesterday said the housing sector could help prevent tragedies resulting from natural calamities through proper land use planning.

Manila, Philippines – The Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) will tap the private sector to address the Aquino administration’s target to reduce the 3.6 million housing backlog half by year 2016, Vice President Jejomar Binay said yesterday.

AFTER being tasked to manage the controversial P21.9-billion dole to some 2.3 million poorest of the poor, the Social Welfare Department is now being assigned to implement the P84-billion shelter program for some 1.2 million squatter-families.

THE authors of a bill seeking to tap volunteer groups to build housing for the poor are reconsidering the imposition of an extra 1-percent realty tax that some lawmakers have described as “forced volunteerism.”

LAWMAKERS on Monday said the Gawad Kalinga bill was forced volunteerism and patriotism because of the proposed mandatory 1-percent real property tax to subsidize housing for the poor.

CIVIL society groups allied with President Benigno Aquino III are bickering over a House bill to make it official policy to tap non-government organizations to build houses for the poor and to subsidize those by imposing an extra 1-percent real property tax.

MANILA, Philippines –  The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), the state-owned pension fund, will provide an initial P5 billion for housing loans to be administered by state-owned Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMF)) or Pag-IBIG Fund.

URBAN poor protested the government’s program of relocating informal settlers or squatters to sites in the provinces.

MANILA, Philippines – Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan suggested yesterday that the plan to relocate some 500,000 informal settlers in Metro Manila to agricultural lands should extend to those who are jobless and unemployed who are willing to work but can not find jobs.

JAKARTA—President Benigno Aquino III said late Saturday more than half a million squatter families in Metro Manila will be relocated and receive two hectares of farm land each under his administration’s program on illegal settlers.

MANILA, Philippines – President Aquino bared Saturday night a government plan to offer informal settlers to go back to the provinces and develop at least two hectares of land and provide for the country’s agricultural needs rather than remain squatters in Metro Manila.

MANILA, Philippines – There is a backlog of 1.4 million units of affordable housing despite the 300 mass housing projects approved by the Board of Investments (BOI).

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VICE President Jejomar Binay, also the country’s housing czar, on Wednesday urged for the implementation of a housing program for government employees.

MANILA, Philippines – The government is looking at building socialized housing units worth P100,000 each in order to provide homes for homeless Filipinos.

MANILA, Philippines – Vice President Jejomar Binay is determined not to be just a spare tire of the President.

MANILA, Philippines – Vice President Jejomar Binay focused his attention on housing reforms during his first five months in office.

THE management of state-run Home Guaranty Corp. have rewarded themselves with P22.2 million to acquire executive cars and another P9.349 million in “incentive awards” in 2009 despite the government corporation racking up P9.98 billion in losses, Bagong Henerasyon Rep. Bernadette Herrera-Dy said Tuesday.

The Senate committee on banks, financial institutions and currencies has concluded that no criminal offense was committed when Home Mutual Development Fund or Pag-IBIG allegedly gave preferential treatment to Globe Asiatique (GA) as he cited the need to plug the loopholes in the agency’s dealings with developers, Sen. Sergio Osmeña III, chairman of the committee,…

MANILA, Philippines—The government’s key shelter agencies have committed to double production of housing units to narrow the housing gap nationwide, according to Vice President Jejomar C. Binay, who also heads the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC).

Vice President and Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) chairman Jejomar Binay yesterday said key shelter agencies have committed to double the production of housing units annually to narrow the country’s current housing gap.

The inter-agency Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) on Wednesday said it would review its policy on mass housing amid the revenue lesion its loose definition has caused the government.

THE loose definition of ‘mass housing’ has been a source of government revenue hemorrhage, according to a Department of Finance (DOF) official.

For almost four centuries, Intramuros was the seat of Spanish colonial rule in the East and was the center of commerce, education, government and religion. Its decline, however, as the center of Manila resulted from World War II. The historic streets, buildings and palatial homes in Intramuros lost its old grandeur and glory—when they were…

An official of state-run Home Development Mutual Fund, or Pag-IBIG Fund, admitted Tuesday that there were lapses that allowed a developer to take up loan proceeds for questionable housing projects.

CEBU, Philippines – Urban poor housing problems take centerstage in yesterday’s celebration of the World Habitat Day in Cebu City.

MANILA, Philippines – The government would need P252 billion to address the estimated 3.6 million housing deficiency in the country, Vice President Jejomar Binay said yesterday.

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines—Vice President Jejomar Binay on Thursday announced the allocation of P30 billion in loanable funds to meet the increased targets of socialized housing nationwide.

MANILA, Philippines – The House committee on housing will look into the reported losses incurred by the Home Guaranty Corp. (HGC), one of several housing agencies under new housing czar Vice President Jejomar Binay.

BACOLOD City, Philippines —Vice President and housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) chairman Jejomar Binay vowed yesterday to review policies and institute initiatives toward a more sustainable housing sector.