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1. Generating Private Housing Initiatives

   To Help LGUs Implement the Urban Development and Housing Act Diogenes S. Osabel President, ALAGAD Party-List
2. Our Government’s Dream: Livable City Housing with Basic Services Inclusive and Sustainable Urban Development Especially for the homeless urban poor…
3. Who are the Urban Poor? Are they the dregs of society? Criminal elements, drug pushers, snatchers, akyat-bahay and bank robbers, kidnappers, pimps, muggers? “Hinayupak kayo! Hindi nagbabayadngbuwis, at kayongmga illegal settlers dapatkayongpasabugin!” – Mike Enriquez of DZBB, morning of August 15, 2012 NO! They are not the urban poor!
4. Given names and faces, the urban poor are the city’s service sector. They are the household helpers, newsboys, carpenters, masons, electricians, welders, car mechanics, public utility drivers, security guards, construction workers, vendors of all kinds, office workers, nurses, messengers, beauticians, delivery boys, utilities, caregivers, garbage collectors, scavengers, and contractual workers for the myriad of industrial and commercial jobs that keep the urban economy grinding and our cities livable. – Rene Catacutan
5. Many of them are in public service –fresh recruits in the PNP and the AFP, barangay volunteers and tanods, traffic aides, street sweepers, and as lowly contractual, temporary or job order employees. Many of their fathers and mothers work overseas to secure a better future for their children.
6. “The development and growth of our cities are accomplished on the bent backs of urban poor workers, yet the great majority of them live in appalling conditions and deprivation.” – Rene Catacutan
7. Poverty and government’s inability to generate affordable housing for our growing population have consigned the poor to misery in depressed slum communities and danger zones.
8. Our Constitution mandated the State to undertake a program which will make affordable decent housing and basic services available to underprivileged and homeless citizens in urban centers...
9. Congress enacted R.A. 7279, the Urban Development and Housing Act (or UDHA) on March 18, 1992, which has become known as the Lina Law. To increase the inventory of affordable housing; To resettle urban poor families living in danger areas, affected by public works development, or to be evicted by Court order; and To contain the growth of new illegal squatting, spawned by squatting syndicates and professional squatters.
10. After more than 20 years, the Lina Law remains largely unimplemented by the LGUs – its lead implementers.
11. Duties and Responsibilities of LGUs: Prepare a Comprehensive Land Use Plan, and Shelter Plan(Sec. 6 and 39); Land Inventoryevery three years (Sec. 7); Identifysocialized housing and resettlement sites (Sec. 8); Register socialized housing beneficiaries(Sec. 17); Facilitate provision ofwater, electricity, sewerage, solid waste management system, access to transport (Sec. 21); Establish consultative mechanismsfor beneficiaries to participate in decision-making process (Sec. 23); Neutralize squatting syndicates and professional squatters (Sec. 27);
12. Implement rules on eviction and demolition, including provision of adequate resettlement or compensation (Sec. 28); Resettle persons in danger areasin public places such as sidewalks, roads, parks and playgrounds; Prevent new illegal constructionof dwelling units or structures (Sec. 30); Assist in the organization of Community Mortgage Program (CMP) beneficiaries (Sec. 33); Submit an annual report to the President and the House of Representatives (Sec. 41); Impose a socialized housing tax(0.5%) on lands assessed in excess of P50.000.00 (Sec. 43); Provide resettlement sites with basic services and access to livelihood opportunities (Sec. 29). N.B. resettlement site should also be climate proof.
13. Current LGU involvement limited to: the SHFC’s Community Mortgage Program; the NHA’shousing and resettlement projects; and GawadKalingaand Habitat housing projects. Localized CMP
14. LGUs usual “constraints”: Lack of funds; and Lack of competent staff.
15. Business as Usual: The Numbers Speak SHFC President Ana Oliveroswants to help 300,000 families a year – 1.5 million families in five years – an incredible jump from 10,000 to 300,000 that would require P18 to P30 billion yearly. Three-Year CMP Performance: 2005-07 1989 to Date: Annual <10,000 units
16. In the race between socialized housing demand and supply, the latter continues to lag way, way, far behind … Rising Inflation Rising Land Values Rising Construction Costs Falling Incomes
17. Two ways to help beat the problem: Compel the LGUs to do their mandated job; and Get the private sector and the homeless to build through the incremental self-help way. FACT: 90 percent of the houses that stand in the country today are built without government assistance or bank financing.
18. UDHA’s uncharted solutions: Focus on the provision of security of tenure LAND is Key. Identify, acquire and use Government or public land (thru Proclamations) Foreclosed properties Tax-delinquent properties Urban renewal thru land consolidation Peripheral agricultural land Cheaper land at the adjoining town Leverage occupied valuable prime areas Support direct negotiated sale of land Promote guided self-help housing Employqualified NGOs and CBOs Think out-of-the-box!
19. Less than 2% of City Space is Needed to House 20%
20. Social housing is an investment in improving the living and working conditions of our people – our country’s most important natural resource.
21. Social Housing is Good Economics Housing is a major economic growth contributor that could help alleviate poverty. Housing generates employment and moves at least 80 industries – in construction, manufacturing, home appliances, transport, and services.
22. “If you call me a squatter, what do you call a society that has reduced me to this state?” “We have the human, physical and financial resources to secure the tenure of the urban poor – to enable them to realize their full potential in building a sustainable city for all.” – Alagad
23. Salamatpo.