P6.7-M housing backlog addressed

The House of Representatives’ Committee on Housing and Urban Development will allocate P50 billion starting next year — increasing in the same amount every year thereafter ­— to cut the government’s 6.7-million housing backlog in five years.

San Jose del Monte, Bulacan Rep. Florida Robes said many of the housing backlogs could be addressed at the local government level through the help of the private sector.