No more ‘faulty’ housing policies by Christmas

Vice President Ma. Leonor Robredo has vowed to end all faulty housing policies by December.

In a chance interview in Naga City (Camarines Sur) where she visited the grave of her late husband and Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo on Tuesday, the Vice President identified five problematic housing policies: Housing backlog is addressed by building houses even if relocation sites do not have access to water, electricity, livelihood, mass transportation, among other basic needs; developers have difficulty in securing permits to build housing projects; titling of land is needed before the government is allowed to build a housing project; processing of conversion of agricultural land to residential land is very slow; and housing projects are inaccessible to the poor.