VP Binay gives lots to 742 Baguio, Benguet families

By Joseph B. Zambrano

BAGUIO CITY --- A total of 742 family-beneficiaries in this city and neighboring municipality of Tuba, Benguet received their Certificates of Lot Award and Certificates of Eligibility for Lot Allocation (CELAs) from Vice President and Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) Chairman Jejomar C. Binay on Feb.16.

Located in three different sites, the housing projects are funded and administered by the National Housing Authority (NHA), Social Housing Finance Corporation (SHFC), and Home Guaranty Corporation (HGC).

The beneficiaries included 445 families whose houses were severely damaged by typhoons Pepeng and Ondoy.

They were relocated to Barangay Tadiangan Resettlement Site, a 58,583-square meter NHA relocation project in Tuba, Benguet.

Each family-beneficiary in Barangay Tadiangan resettlement site is entitled to a housing unit in a 40-square meter lot.


On the other hand, 110 family-beneficiaries of the Loakan Green Meadows Homeowners’ Association Phase 1, also received their CELAs under the Community Mortgage Program (CMP) with an approved funding of about P6 million.

The CMP is a financing scheme that assists organized community associations composed of informal settler families (ISFs) to legally acquire the lots they presently occupy.

Another 51 families in Pinesville Subdivision at Kias, Baguio City who settled their housing accounts with HGC also received their CELAs from the Vice President.

HGC likewise turned over the titles to road lots and open spaces in Pinesville to the local government of Baguio City.

“The government shelter agencies have made every effort to provide decent and affordable homes to every Filipino family including the ISFs so they would no longer risk life and limb living in shanties that usually stand in danger areas,” Binay said.

He told the beneficiaries that solving the housing problem in the country is difficult, and cannot be solved by government or private sector alone.He urged the beneficiaries to actively participate in solving the problem on housing.