TACLOBAN
CITY, Sept. 23 (PNA) – A housing village for policemen and soldiers in Tagpuro
village here remained unoccupied after three years and now in a state of
dilapidation.
At least 800
housing units have been finished but unoccupied in Sangyaw Village in the
northern part of the city. The contractor has not yet turned over the project
to the National Housing Authority (NHA) and it has no occupancy permit from the
city engineering office.
The project
is undertaken by Solana Land Development Corporation and Golden Build
Corporation.
Both construction companies are Manila-based.
The NHA
national office conducted and awarded the bidding, according to NHA regional
Estate Management Specialist Dorcas T. Secreto.
She cannot
say if sanction be given to the developers for failure to turnover on schedule.
Sangyaw
Village broke ground on April 2013 and was supposed to be awarded and occupied
by the beneficiaries in August of the same year.
According to
Secreto, the project is intended for the low-salaried personnel of Armed Forces
of the Philippines, 450 units; Philippine National Police, 450 units; Bureau of
Fire, 50 and Bureau of Correction another 50 beneficiaries.
City
Engineer Dony O. De Paz said no one has applied yet for the occupancy permit.
De Paz said it is important that they apply for the occupancy permit so a check
on the livability of each unit be conducted.
The Sangyaw
village sits on an eight-hectare land in Tagpuro village, in the northernmost
part of Tacloban City where Yolanda survivors are mostly relocated. It is a row
housing with 40-square meter lot each and a floor area of 22 square meters.
Each housing
unit costs PHP240,000 pesos (PHP205,000 payable by the personnel and PHP35,000
subsidized by the agency) the beneficiaries were to pay NHA PHP200 every month
for 30 years.
According to
Joseph Peter Sison of Solano Compary, it took them a year to process the
titling for the mother title and now they are processing titling of the 1,000
individual units to the beneficiaries that caused the delay.
The PHP18.6
Billion NHA housing project is a flagship program of President Benigno Aquino
administration that started in 2012.
The project
seeks to provide permanent housing to low-salaried military and police whose
need for housing must be addressed immediately. (PNA)
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