BAGUIO CITY -- The City Social Welfare and Development Office here clarified beneficiaries of the local government’s socialized housing program are those qualified under guidelines provided by housing agencies.
Assistant City Social Welfare and Development Officer Liza Bulayongan said nowhere in guidelines for implementation of the socialized housing program provide that recipients of the earmarked housing units will be for the rich and employees of the local government as the same are for people who are classified members of vulnerable and marginalized sectors.
He said qualifications of beneficiaries of the local government’s socialized housing program are clearly defined under National Housing Authority (NHA memorandum circular 2018-030 or updated guidelines for implementation of the resettlement assistance program for local government units.
Target beneficiaries of said project include informal settler families such as families residing in danger areas and in other public places; families who have been displaced by natural calamities and human induced disasters, particularly internal conflicts, fire victims requiring relocation to safe areas; families displaced or to be displaced from sites earmarked for government infrastructure projects and families subject to court orders for demolition and eviction.
The guidelines provided families must qualify as socialized housing beneficiaries as defined pursuant to the pertinent provisions of Republic Act (RA) 7279 or the urban Development and Housing Act (UDHA).
The updated guidelines introduced improvements in the implementation of the aforesaid program that included increase in funding assistance; improvement in development standards, compliance to requirements for local government participation and alignment with gender and development principles and its implementation as prescribed under previous orders that mandated the mainstreaming of gender and development in NHA resettlement program policies, guidelines, activities and projects.
Guidelines shall serve as a guide to local government partners and the NHA operating units in the planning and implementation of the prescribed projects for funding effective in 2019.
Pursuant to NHA Board Resolution No. 5436 dated March 30, 2012, NHA issued Memorandum Circular No. 2427 governing the implementation of the resettlement assistance program for local government units.
The said program was developed pursuant to NHA’s mandate under RA 7279 to provide financial and technical assistance to local government units in the implementation of their urban development and housing programs and in line with NHA’s role as enabler and facilitator in the housing delivery process.
The general policy is geared towards providing financial and technical assistance to local government units in the development of their housing sites for informal settler families requiring relocation and resettlement. - Dexter A. See
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