Sunday, September 09, 2007
City gives 40T ‘grace period’
By Rene H. Martel
Sun.Star Staff Reporter
AFTER years of being lenient, the Cebu City Government is out to make socialized housing beneficiaries pay.
They are given six months to either enter into or renew their memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the City Government, if not they will have their rights forfeited or their amortization raised by 25 percent, the Local Housing Board said.
Charmae Pyl Nercua (FORGE’s Advocacy Officer), City Division for the Welfare of the […]

Saturday, September 08, 2007
P100M land ‘not livable’
By Linette C. Ramos
Sun.Star Staff Reporter
TEN years after the lots were bought, some P100 million worth of properties intended for Cebu City’s urban poor socialized housing program remain idle because they are “unlivable.”
The City Government has some 190,000 square meters of undeveloped land in hilly areas in five barangays, which were bought sometime in 1997 to 2000.
Unoccupied properties are one of the three reasons the Division for the Welfare of the Urban Poor (DWUP) […]