Government, ALI to build housing for informal settlers

MANILA, Philippines — The government has teamed up with one of the country’s largest property developers to provide housing to nearly 3,000 informal settler families.

The Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD), Ayala Land Inc. and the local government of Bataan recently broke ground on the 1Bataan Village in Orion.

The project will involve the construction of 2,936 housing units for informal settler families and fire victims or a total of about 12,000 individual Filipino beneficiaries.

It will also serve as a resettlement site for families living along danger zones across the province.

The project will be undertaken by DHSUD-attached agency National Housing Corp. and Ayala Land through its incentivized compliance to balanced housing program.

A memorandum of agreement was finalized last December, under which the DHSUD and NHA will lead the land development for the construction of six three-story buildings on the housing site acquired by the Bataan government.

Housing chief Eduardo del Rosario said the government aims to ensure that no substandard housing project is built for Filipinos.

The DHSUD has been initiating land development of housing projects that were finalized with local government units nationwide in partnership with key shelter agencies and developers from the private sector.