By Othel V. Campos | October 7, 2013
manilastandardtoday.com
Vice President Jejomar Binay on Monday
cited the contribution of the business process management sector, including
call centers, to the government’s housing development plan.
“As head of the government housing
sector, I have witnessed over the past three years how the burgeoning
middle-class coming from the ranks of BPM employees have spurred the growth of
the real-estate industry,” Binay said, during the second day of the International
Outsourcing Summit at the Shangri-La Makati Hotel in Makati City.
“It is worth noting that due to the
rising demand for houses by the BPM workforce, and our overseas Filipino
workers, other Filipinos get their chance at employment since for every 100
jobs created by the housing sector, 18 additional jobs are created in other
industries,” he said.
Binay said without any aggressive
intervention, housing backlog could reach 5 million by 2016 from 3.6 million
when he started his job as housing overseer.
He said the rapid increase in
population was one of the major factors in the burgeoning backlog, on top of
the government’s insufficient funds to address the need for mass and socialized
housing.
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