00:00 The government is now working on the national housing for the Filipino program in Metro Manila.
00:05 It is in accordance with the directive of President Ferdinand R. Marquez Jr.
00:09 that every Filipino family should have their own house.
00:13 The center of the news is from Patrick Dezos.
00:16 The Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development, DILG, MMDA and Metro Manila Council
00:25 is now working on the national housing for the Filipino program in Metro Manila
00:31 for informal settler families.
00:33 It is in accordance with the directive of President Ferdinand R. Marquez Jr.
00:37 that every Filipino family should have their own house.
00:41 We have talked with the President about this.
00:44 During the last meeting, January 2,
00:49 we were asked if it is possible to talk with the Metro Manila mayors
00:54 about the housing for our government.
00:56 For everyone's information,
00:58 this will be piloted in Metro Manila but it will be done in the whole country.
01:04 The help that the local governments in the National Capital Region asked for
01:10 for the implementation of the program has gone far.
01:12 This includes the allocation of staging areas
01:15 and the temporary relocation of ISFs
01:18 while the houses are being built
01:20 that are targeted to be completed within one to two years.
01:23 The staging area is located at the same site where they used to live
01:27 and where they will build their houses
01:29 or within a few meters, a few hundred meters from that same location.
01:36 What we want is that the social assets, social capital of our fellow Filipinos
01:41 should not be lost.
01:42 That means, their opportunities to work,
01:45 their opportunities to study,
01:47 their friends and relatives who visit them
01:50 so that they will not be separated and continue to live well.
01:54 The vacant land owned by the government
01:59 or other idle land that will be given by the government
02:02 as a temporary relocation is being studied
02:04 where the private owners will be given incentives.
02:06 Under the law, as long as a property has no development,
02:12 it will be paid by the idle tax.
02:14 What we did was one of the exceptions
02:17 so that you will not have to pay if the government uses it, you are exempted.
02:20 So, it will not be paid by the tax
02:22 but instead, we will temporarily use the staging area.
02:26 It can be done by the LGU.
02:30 So, there are many ways.
02:32 Officials are hoping that the program will be supported by the informal settler families
02:36 where it can add up to 50 projects
02:40 in the NCR that has 170,000 units.
02:43 Patrick De Jesus, for the country.
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