ROXAS City – Seven years after super typhoon “Yolanda” struck, the National Housing Authority (NHA) finally turned over a housing resettlement project to the city government.
NHA built a total of 1,533 housing units in Jumaguicjic Ville Site 1 and 2 and Tanza Ville under the national government’s Yolanda Permanent Housing Project.
The beneficiaries are people living in danger zones – mostly informal settlers along bodies of water such as rivers and creeks or near shorelines — and those displaced by “Yolanda” here in November 2013.
On Tuesday, March 23, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Alexei Nograles graced the virtual turnover ceremony.
Mayor Ronnie Dadivas said the project would give decent living spaces to the beneficiaries.
He thus urged them to “halungan ang housing units.”
The following also graced the virtual turnover: NHA regional manager Engineer Antonio Del Rosario; District Manager Jesus Fantilaga; NHA Region 6 Chief Corporate Attorney John Leo Solinap; Sangguniang Panlungsod’s chairperson of the Committee on Housing /Urban Poor, Councilor Trina Ignacio; Councilor Cora Tiangco; and City Administrator Lorie Belle Usison, among others./PN
