IN a forthcoming report of the Senate Committee on Urban Planning, Housing and Resettlement, the National Housing Authority (NHA) is urged to file charges against current and former officials of the agency, as well as erring contractors for a host of violations revealed during previous committee hearings. A better question the committee led by Sen. JV Ejercito might have asked is why the NHA has not done so already.
The senator told the media on Thursday his committee had heard testimony that established collusion between mid-level NHA officials and building contractors in the Visayas region. The committee also heard that a vast number of housing units built primarily for victims of various calamities dating all the way back to 2011 were of substandard construction, with some even built in danger zones.
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