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    A 'Substantial' Number of Houses For Families Affected by 'Yolanda' Remain Unfinished

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    A substantial number of houses for families affected by Typhoon Yolanda remain unfinished more than five years after the typhoon. According to a report, 56,140 of the 205,128 housing units in the affected areas are in Eastern Visayas, where barely over half (29,531) are fully completed and occupied (18,183) or ready for occupancy (11,348). The government aims to complete all housing projects by next year. Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles has asked mayors to reactivate committees to ensure the successful turnover of resettlement housing projects.

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    A substantial number of houses for families affected by Typhoon Yolanda remain unfinished more than five years after the typhoon. According to a report, 56,140 of the 205,128 housing units in the affected areas are in Eastern Visayas, where barely over half (29,531) are fully completed and occupied (18,183) or ready for occupancy (11,348). The government aims to complete all housing projects by next year. Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles has asked mayors to reactivate committees to ensure the successful turnover of resettlement housing projects.

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    A substantial number of houses for families affected by Typhoon Yolanda remain unfinished more than five years after the typhoon. According to a report, 56,140 of the 205,128 housing units in the affected areas are in Eastern Visayas, where barely over half (29,531) are fully completed and occupied (18,183) or ready for occupancy (11,348). The government aims to complete all housing projects by next year. Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles has asked mayors to reactivate committees to ensure the successful turnover of resettlement housing projects.

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    A 'substantial' number of houses for families affected by 'Yolanda' remain unfinished

    Alexis Romero (philstar.com) - March 17, 2019 - 3:34pm

    Rationale:

    MANILA, Philippines — A "substantial" number of houses for families affected by "Yolanda" remain unfinished more
    than five years after the typhoon ravaged the Visayas, Malacañang said Sunday. Citing a report of the National Housing
    Authority, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said 56,140 of the 205,128 housing units in the "Yolanda" corridor are in
    Eastern Visayas. Of the 56,140 Eastern Visayas housing units, only barely more than half, or 29,531, are fully completed,
    with 18,183 units already occupied and 11,348 units ready for occupancy.

    To address the issue, Nograles has asked Leyte mayors to reactivate local inter-agency committees (LIAC) formed to
    ensure the successful turnover of "Yolanda" resettlement housing projects. “We have to address this by reactivating the
    LIACs. If the LIACs are active, major milestones (would be) observed. This includes submission of a complete list of
    beneficiaries, monitor the status of construction of housing units, facilitate the actual transfer of beneficiaries, and come
    up with occupancy rules and regulations,” Nograles said in a statement. “We are appealing to local government units for
    active support and participation because only through LIACs that we can effectively implement housing program.
    Through this committee, they can generate issues and concerns, report to us, and address these needs through national
    government agencies with the help of local governments,” he added.

    The government aims to complete all housing projects by next year. Nograles said key accomplishments have been
    observed in local governments where LIACs are active namely the complete submission of the master list of "Yolanda"
    housing beneficiaries, public raffle of housing units, actual transfer and relocation of beneficiaries and orientation of
    beneficiaries on occupancy rules and regulations. Nograles, also the chairman of an interagency task force on the
    rehabilitation and recovery of areas hit by "Yolanda," said it was necessary to find out the needs of resettlement sites
    and include them in the 2020 budget. “We want a township approach where resettlement sites are provided with
    electricity, water, community center, school, health center, access road, and livelihood opportunities,” the Cabinet
    official said. “Yolanda,” said to be one of the strongest cyclones that hit the Philippines, left more than 6,000 people
    dead and more than a million others displaced. The typhoon also damaged about P90 billion worth of properties,
    according to government data.

    Reflection:

    Although five years has passed, typhoon Yolanda still leaves a huge damage on our country and to fellow Filipinos. A lot
    of people are still left homeless but the government seems to overlook this problem and focus on something else. It
    feels like, if a new issue is brought up and one body of the government tried to talk about it, everyone else will follow.
    It’s like the domino effect and mainly these victims are used for advertisement and campaigns. Also makes me wonder
    since I’ve read from somewhere that there are still 5 billion pesos left, and the total amount of money donated is
    actually unknown. What if there were more than 100 billion Pesos in total? How can they not complete the total number
    of houses with that amount of time and money? When countries such as Japan can fix a giant sinkhole within 48 hours?
    Although they planned to complete all housing projects by next year, I think we need to wait 5 more years for every
    victim to have their own “decent” house to live in again.

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