Yolanda housing delay a national shame

THE shocking revelation by the Commission on Audit (CoA) this week that only a little more than half of the permanent housing units intended for families displaced by Typhoon Yolanda nearly six years ago is a disgrace, a shameful state of affairs that must be corrected at once by any means necessary.

In the “Status of Accomplishment for Permanent Housing Program of the National Housing Authority (NHA)” released on Thursday, the CoA said that as of Dec. 31, 2018, out of a target of 203,471 housing units to replace homes destroyed by Typhoon Yolanda in November 2013, only 117,167, or 58 percent, had been completed.