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Sunday, October 02, 2005
Sugbuak to worsen housing situation
Making three more provinces out of Cebu will have a serious repercussion on the housing situation of the province, a government official said.
Paz Torlao, assistant regional director of the Presidential Commission on Urban Poor (PCUP), cited the “bad” negotiations between municipalities or cities as basis for issuing such a warning.
Concession
Given this, Torlao foresees a worse situation for province-to-province concession.
She explained that in the present situation, there are spillovers in housing situations in a certain city, causing officials to house some of their constituents in a nearby city or municipality.
Cebu City has a number of housing spillovers in Talisay City, she said.
“The question is, how do you coordinate efforts? Intra-province negotiation is already hard to coordinate,” Torlao said during a forum organized recently by the Population Commission.
Proponents
Reps. Simeon Kintanar, Antonio Yapha Jr. and Clavel Asas-Martinez are all hoping to make each of their districts into a separate province.
Kintanar wants the second district to be known as Cebu del Sur, Yapha’s third district as Cebu Occidental, and Cebu del Norte for Martinez’s 4th district.
Torlao cited housing spillovers in Naga (1st district) as an example. She said it will be a long and arduous task to coordinate with Barili and Pinamungajan, considering the bureaucracy of another province.
Barili is part of the second district, while Pinamungajan is in the third.
At this, Tarlao slammed proponents of Sugbuak saying, “politicians don’t want to advocate population management, because more population is the criteria for cityhood, or the creation of another province.”
Backlogs
She added that politicians are not even wary of the housing situation that will be gravely affected.
Cebu and the whole Central Visayas have been experiencing housing backlogs as proclaimed by the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) in July.
HLURB Technical Services Head Boy Bacalso, though, could not cite statistics but said the problem needs to be addressed. (JGA)
(October 2, 2005 issue)
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