05/09/2012 [ tribune.net.ph ]
The administration of Quezon City
Mayor Herbert “Bistek” Bautista yesterday announced it is set to launch two
more socialized housing projects for the city’s informal settlers.
Early this year, the QC government
started constructing the first two socialized housing projects of the mayor —
the Bistekville I in Barangay Payatas and Bistekville II in Barangay Kaligayahan.
Under the pro-poor housing program of
Bautista, housing communities will be developed to provide safe and affordable
homes to the responsible poor and those to be relocated from danger zones or
flood-prone areas along the waterways.
Secretary to the Mayor and Housing
Task Force chairman Tadeo Palma said for the Bistekville III and Bistekville IV
projects, the city government has already started negotiations for project site
acquisition and other concerns.
He said Bistekville III will be in Barangay
Escopa while Bistekville IV will be in Barangay Culiat.
Palma further said actual design of
the housing units for the two additional socialized housing projects has
already been prepared.
Meanwhile, the Quezon City Association
of Filipino-Chinese Businessmen Inc. led by its president Bobby Chua-Ching has
vowed to finance 10 units of pro-poor housing projects in either of the two
socialized housing sites.
Ching said it was their association’s
commitment to the QC government to help in efforts to uplift the living
conditions of informal settlers and boost the tourism industry in the city.
Other units will also be constructed
under a public-private partnership arrangement like the Bistekville I with
private partner Habitat for Humanity and Bistekville II with Phinma, according
to Palma.
“Mayor Bautista indeed wants to
fast-track the development of his socialized housing projects to provide decent
resettlement homes for the city’s underprivileged residents, particularly the
responsible poor,” Palma said.
Aside from socialized housing, the
Bautista administration will also build housing units in Cubao which will be
rented out to the city’s public school teachers at affordable price.
The project under the city’s Housing
and Urban Renewal Authority Inc. will be constructed in a 2,000-square meter
lot on Kalantiaw Street, Project 4, also in the city. Arlie O. Calalo
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