A measure authorizing the on-site relocation of thousands of informal settlers across the country hurdled the committee level at the House of Representatives. The House committee on housing and urban development approved on Wednesday a substitute bill establishing a local government resettlement program that implements an on-site, in-city, […]
SAFER HOMES AMID COVID-19 Housing Finance Corporation (SHFC) has approved about P20 million in loan for the resettlement of more than 200 families previously living in shanties along a river in Davao City as the agency continues to uphold its mandate to administer socialized housing programs amid the COVID-19 […]
Under a Senate bill strengthening the government’s housing program, the Social Housing Finance Corporation (SHFC) is mandated to provide shelter to informal settlers living in risk areas like shorelines, river banks and other danger zones. SHFC also has been given a key role under the recently approved-Senate bill […]
Nat’l housing development, financing bill passage pushed By ROGER M. BALANZA The Social Housing Finance Corporation (SHFC) will play a key role under a proposed Senate bill that aims to decongest MetroManila by luring back people to their provinces. Primarily, Senate Bill No. 203, or the National Housing […]
Seizing shelter not a mandate “It’s really against our mandate or our basic principle that housing is a right.” True to its mandate, the state firm Social Housing Finance Corp (SHFC) has refrained from foreclosing loans awarded to the underprivileged and instead provided much leeway for the partner-borrowers […]
Davao del Sur Governor Douglas Cagas did not care if after shocks from two 6plus magnitude earthquakes that rocked Tulonan in nearby Cotabato continue to rock his province and threaten government buildings including the Provincial Capitol. Gov. Cagas had declared October 30 as “no work day” at the […]
