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Around 85,000 persons have already enrolled online under the Balik Probinsya, Bagong Pag-Asa (BP2) program as the government ramps up efforts to assist residents in Metro Manila to have a fresh start in their provinces, BP2 Council Executive Director Marcelino Escalada Jr. said. Escalada, who is also the general manager of the National Housing Authority […]
“Just like we promised last week, there would be regular turnovers of completed housing units for Yolanda victims. We have now fully completed the residential projects for the towns of Anilao, Iloilo and Pres. Roxas, Capiz, both in Panay island.”This was according to Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles who has confirmed that the finished units have […]
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles announced on Tuesday that 10 days after remembering the devastating typhoon which struck large areas of the Visayas in 2013, the Duterte administration was again distributing a new batch of completed housing units to survivors of Typhoon Yolanda. “The houses for Yolanda beneficiaries in several towns in Iloilo, Antique, Aklan and […]
The National Electrification Administration (NEA) and electric cooperatives (ECs), through the One EC Network Foundation, are stepping up efforts to help earthquake survivors in Cotabato rise from the rubble and rebuild their lives. NEA Administrator Edgardo Masongsong graced on Friday the official launch of the “Build Me A Home: Adopt A Home, Adopt a Future” program […]
In support of the administration’s aim to address the need for affordable, accessible and quality housing in the country, Senator Bong Go has filed Senate Bill No. 203, or the proposed National Housing Development, Production and Financing Act of 2019. The bill mandates the creation of a National Housing Development Production and Financing Program to […]
“Walang dapat maging squatter sa sariling bayan” (There should be no squatters in their own country). In an effort to curb homelessness and improve the delivery of housing services to poor Filipinos, Senator Bong Go has filed a bill that aims to provide continuous funding support for a large scale pro-poor housing program in the […]
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 […]
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 […]