Go pushing for bills seeking to enhance housing programs
Go said such bills would provide accessible housing services for the homeless and underprivileged.
Go, chairman of the Senate health and demography committee, emphasized that every Filipino family deserves a decent home. The bill directs the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development to implement the component programs of the NHDPF program. Go stressed that limited appropriations have hampered the government’s ability to provide millions of Filipinos with their basic right of shelter. Less than one percent of the annual national budget is put towards pro-poor housing programs.
The bill seeks to provide families displaced by natural and man-made disasters with improved access to the formal housing market by offering a rental subsidy.It will be a percentage of the total amount of rentals as determined by the rental or lease contract between the eligible beneficiary and the lessor. For eligible beneficiaries below the poverty threshold as determined by the Philippine Statistics Authority, the subsidy will be at least 50 percent of the total amount of rentals.
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