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Senator JV Ejercito and San Juan City Mayor Guia Gomez lead the inauguration of San Juan Ville Housing Project. (Photo courtesy of San Juan PID)
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SAN JUAN CITY, Jan. 21 (PIA) - -San Juan City government is true to its commitment to provide better living conditions to indigent constituents.
On Friday, January 18, Mayor Guia Gomez led the inauguration and blessing of San Juan Ville Housing Project, the second in-city relocation of the city government.
The project, located along F. Manalo Street in Barangay Kabayanan, is composed of two five-storey buildings with a total of 118 units, a multi-purpose hall and own sewage treatment plant.
Beneficiaries were pre-selected from among the legitimate residents of flood-prone Barangay Salapan.
Prices for each unit depends on floor location. Units at the ground floor costs P500,000 each while those at the fifth floor costs P400,000 each.
For example, beneficiaries who availed units at the third floor can choose to either avail straight payment of P2,280 for 30 years or choose a staggered payment (P800 for the first five years, then 1,400 from 6 to 10 years, P2,200 from 11 to 15 years, P3,200 from 16 to 20, P4,400 from 21 to 25 years and P5,500 from 26 to 30 years).
“The homeowners who will occupy these units are the ones who believed that this project will happen. The government is currently expropriating lands around the city for further in-city housing projects,” Mayor Gomez said.
The Memorandum of Agreement for the housing project was signed by the DILG and San Juan City Government in 2015.
The Sangguniang Panlungsod, led by Vice Mayor Janella Ejercito Estrada, fully supported the housing project and even passed the ordinance allowing the City Mayor to enter an agreement with DILG and allowing the appropriation of a P35 million for land development.
The DILG, for their part, allocated P90 million for the project which was formally turned over to the San Juan City Government in 2016. Groundbreaking of the project was done in April of 2017.
Senator Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito, who chairs the Committee on Urban Planning and Housing in the Senate, and also present during the inauguration said, “I want to show to the whole country that even if San Juan is a small city, it was able to come up with an in-city housing project for the poor. Other cities should be able to do the same.”
Department of the Interior and Local Government-National Capital Region (DILG-NCR) OIC-Regional Director Juan Jovian Ingeniero also graced the activity representing DILG Secretary Eduardo Año. (PIA-NCR)
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