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==VP Binay inaugurates typhoon-resistant housing units in Sorsogon== | |||
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=380588 | |||
*October 20, 2011, 4:26 pm | |||
:by Danny O. Calleja | |||
SORSOGON CITY, Oct. 20 (PNA) – Vice President Jejomar Binay Sr. on Wednesday led the inauguration ceremonies for the typhoon-resistant housing units built by the city government for homeless indigent families in a calamity-vulnerable village here. | |||
The housing project is located in Barangay Talisay, one of the city’s villages that usually suffer severe impacts of typhoons and storm surge due to its proximity to Sorsogon Bay. | |||
City Mayor Leovic Dioneda said the housing units inaugurated will also be replicated in other barangays here that are also considered highly vulnerable to natural calamities. | |||
His coming to the city, according to Binay, was part of his role as the chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) that implements and oversees the government's housing thrust in line with the standards being instituted under its climate change mitigation and adaptation (CCMA) mechanisms across the country. | |||
“I also wanted to experience for myself the merrymakings of the Sorsogueños as they celebrate Kasanggayahan Festival being held this year in time with the 117th founding anniversary of the province,” said the Vice President who was welcomed by thousands of people including school children who lined up the city’s main street on his arrival Wednesday afternoon. | |||
The children waved colorful flags while chanting “NoyBi” the campaign slogan coined by political campaigners in the 2010 presidential elections that supported then senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III for president and Binay for vice-president. The two ran under separate political camps and voters here gave them overwhelming approvals over their respective rivals. | |||
After the inauguration rites, Binay was ushered by Dioneda to the five School Mitigating, Adapting and Resilient to Typhoons (SMART) school buildings, water treatment facility and several other housing units newly constructed by the city government through funding provided by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). | |||
The Vice President also met with other local chief executives in the province with whom he discussed concerns on instituting quality housing provisions for those who are usually affected by severe weather disturbances, identify relocation areas and provide housing that can withstand adverse effects of the change in weather conditions. | |||
Important issues that include comprehensive land use plan, inventory of lands, housing regulation and land use planning, national drive against professional squatters and squatting syndicates, group housing loan program, community mortgage program and disposition of acquired assets, were also discussed. | |||
Binay stayed overnight in the city and early in the morning of Thursday, he joined hundreds of runners in the five-kilometer Kasanggayahan Fun Run organized by his Bicol-based fraternity brothers in the Alpha Phi Omega. | |||
The Vice President’s two-day stay here was part of the Bicol leg of the Pabahay Caravan, the second to the last of the series of forum in all 17 regions in the country to hasten the shelter program of the government in partnership with local government units (LGUs) being initiated by the HUDCC. | |||
HUDCC regional director for Bicol Cristina Abaño said that the Pabahay Caravan launches the granting of financial support to LGUs so that they will be able to implement their own housing projects. Under Republic Act 7279 or the Urban Development and Housing Act of 1992, LGUs have important roles in pursuing housing programs for their constituents. | |||
Abaño said that the Pabahay Caravan is expected to ease the housing backlog in Bicol which is about 46,000 per year. Based on the HUDCC inventory, the housing backlog in the country is estimated to 3.7 million units. (PNA) | |||
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==VP Binay inaugurates Sorsogon City housing units; to join Kasanggayahan Festival 2011 Fun Run tomorrow== | ==VP Binay inaugurates Sorsogon City housing units; to join Kasanggayahan Festival 2011 Fun Run tomorrow== | ||
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r05&id=59985 | *Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r05&id=59985 | ||
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The vice president will also meet with other agencies that work in disaster management to discuss concerns how to improve the housing situation in the province become a CCMA houses. | The vice president will also meet with other agencies that work in disaster management to discuss concerns how to improve the housing situation in the province become a CCMA houses. | ||
His presence today and tomorrow will be an added attraction also to the celebration of the KF 2011 as he will spearhead tomorrow's fun run as organized by his fraternity brothers in the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) (MAL/IAG, PIA Sorsogon) | His presence today and tomorrow will be an added attraction also to the celebration of the KF 2011 as he will spearhead tomorrow's fun run as organized by his fraternity brothers in the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) (MAL/IAG, PIA Sorsogon) | ||
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