Housing czar Eduardo del Rosario has unveiled low-rise housing projects in Malabon City and Quezon City that will benefit urban poor families staying along the danger zones in Metro Manila.
Secretary Eduardo del Rosario of the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development on Wednesday led the turnover of two high-density housing projects carried out by the Social Housing Finance Corp. in Malabon’s Barangay Longos for 282 families from the Marangal Village Homeowners Association Inc. and from Quezon City’s Barangay San Agustin for the 92 informal settler families from the Samahang Magkakapitbahay na Nagkakaisa Homeowners Association Inc.
“Seeing these projects, within a few seconds, I can say already that these are housing projects that we can be proud of… decent yet very affordable,” Del Rosario said.
Lawyer Arnolfo Cabling, SHFC president, said “all those in the danger zones, everybody should be included, no matter what is your status in life, no matter how much is your combined family monthly income, we have to be inclusive, we have to provide a program for all the Filipinos. This is actually your project, not ours, because it is community-driven.”
The DHSUD chief maintained that DHDSUD considers shelter as a right of every Filipino family, and that it is the responsibility of the department to capacitate low-income families to have access to decent and affordable shelters.
“This is a basic right that is inherent in every Filipino family. This will be a direction in the things that we do in terms of policy-making and finance modalities as well as producing housing units,” he said.
DHSUD, along with the SHFC, is not just building housing units, “but rather housing communities that residents can be proud of.”
He assured the shelter beneficiaries that no sub-standard housing units are constructed under the Duterte administration.