PNP
HOUSING PROJECT
16 May 2006
At the
Tarlac PNP housing project launch VP urges
beneficiaries to value and preserve what is given them. Citing
the
daily hazards that policemen face in the performance
of their duties that even require them to lay their
lives on the line, Vice President Noli ‘Kabayan’
De Castro, concurrently chairman of the Housing and
Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC)
strongly urged Tarlac policemen to cherish and safeguard
with the same fervor the housing opportunity presented
them by the combined efforts of the government
and the private sector represented by the Gawad
Kalinga.
Vice
President and concurrent HUDCC chair Noli ‘Kabayan’ De Castro
leads the Kalinga Special Housing Project launching in Camp
Macabulos, San Vicente, Tarlac City. De Castro urged Tarlac
policemen to cherish and safeguard the housing opportunity presented
them by the combined efforts of the government and the private sector
represented by the Gawad Kalinga. Cementing the blocks with Vice
President Noli ‘Kabayan’ De Castro is Gawad Kalinga Executive
Director Antonio Meloto with Tarlac City Mayor Genaro Mendoza, and
Deputy Chief PNP for Administration PDDG Oscar Calderon looking over.
(OVP phot by Egay Montaña)
At the
PULIS KALINGA MACABULOS PILOT HOUSING PROJECT launch and
the signing of the memoranda of agreement among the
sectors involved in the project in Camp Macabulos
in Tarlac City, Vice President De Castro disclosed
that while government is prioritizing the housing needs
of the informal sector, notably those along the
right-of-way of the PNR North and South lines, the
housing sector is also attending to the housing
needs of the government sector, particularly the
low-salaried employees. Under the Institutional Housing
Program of the government, priority is given to the
needs of the teachers, soldiers, policemen, and LGU
employees.
Kaya naman
dapat ay pahalagahan ninyo ang benepisyong ito. Kung
may mga requirements, lakarin po natin. Yung mga
kaukulang obligasyon, bayaran po natin. Lahat po naman iyan
ay para rin sa inyong pamilya, at ang kapalit ng
inyong pagsisikap ay sarili ninyong bahay at lupa.
Vice
President De Castro also revealed that the housing
project is a concept of the PNP through its personnel
housing assistance program with the valuable assistance
of the Gawad Kalinga.
The Vice
President further related that the national government
supported this cause through Proclamation No. 607
signed by President Arroyo allocating some 6.28
hectares of land for PNP off-site housing within Camp
Macabulos.
The
development of the proclaimed land would be funded by the
local housing fund of Congressman Noynoy Aquino, in
the amount of P3.136 million while the construction
of the 50 housing units will be sponsored by the Gawad
Kalinga, in cooperation with the local government
of Tarlac, the PNP and the national Housing Authority.
The
AFPSLAI, for its part, will donate P6 million for the
construction of 200 more housing units that would cost
P60,000 per unit. Apart form this, an additional P30,000 per
beneficiary would be available from the Public
Safety Mutual Benefit Financial Institution (PSMBFI).