Full-fledged department to clear 6.57M housing backog

CREBA is pressing hard anew for a full-fledged department that will enable the government to address the perennial and ever-increasing housing backlog which the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) has announced to have reached a minimum of 6.57 million units as of 2017. This untiring call-out to government takes a high pitch as […]

CREBA’s 5-point Agenda for Housing

For now until the end of this year, the Chamber of Real Estate & Builders’ Associations, Inc. or CREBA trains its focus on key legislative issues that seek to address the totality of the Philippine housing situation. CREBA’s five-point agenda for housing encompasses the following major areas of concern:   Long-term and affordable funds for Socialized […]

The Quest for a Dept. of Housing

Our four-part series will be capped with another important housing-related bill that remains pending in the 16th Congress. In a recent Congressional hearing, the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) reported that the current housing backlog stands at about 5.5 million units. Former NEDA chief Cielito F. Habito, however, has observed that Philippine government […]

Department of Housing: A MUST

It is a great honour and privilege for me to lead for another year the country’s largest umbrella organization of stakeholders from the allied industries of housing, construction, and real estate development – the Chamber of Real Estate and Builders’ Associations, Inc. or CREBA. Over the last four decades, CREBA has taken upon itself to […]