GOVERNMENT housing agencies expect to construct this year 120,000 housing units for families displaced by Super Typhoon Yolanda (international codename: Haiyan), Vice President Jejomar Binay said on Sunday.

The Vice President, chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) and the head of the Yolanda Resettlement Cluster, added that as of December 2014, P13.4 billion has been released for the construction of 46,129 housing units. Of these, 37,500 have been bid out and awarded.

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