LU folks warned vs scammers posing as housing officials

BAUANG, La Union -- Philippine housing officials urged subdivision and village residents to be vigilant and guard their homes against criminal syndicates fielding individuals posing as subdivision association officials to gain access to their homes or solicit money.

At the same time, Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) Supervising Commissioner Luis A. Paredes warned homeowners’ associations (HOAs) not registered with the HLURB against usurping the functions of legally mandated associations stressing “these persons are not authorized and subject to sanctions.”

Paredes, a lawyer, told some 400 Region 1 delegates to the two-day HLURB-HOA seminar-workshop at Ariana Hotel here last week that “it is the HLURB and not SEC or any other agency whether government or private, which is mandated by law to rule on questions and disputes involving Homeowners Associations and housing.”

“The jurisdiction of SEC over those Homeowners Associations earlier registered with the Agency has been transferred to the HLURB,” he said.