Antique eyes bamboo housing for 29 informal settler families

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SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique – The Antique provincial government is planning to build bamboo-based housing units for 29 informal settler families relocate...

BAMBOO HOUSING. The Homeless Peoples Federation of the Philippines, Inc. (HPFPI) Balay Kawayan (Bamboo Housing) in San Isidro Relocation Site in Barangay Isidro, Jaro in Iloilo City in an undated photo. Antique Provincial Housing Affairs and Resettlement Office head Eby Archangel Butiong said the provincial government is planning to put up shelters for the relocated families in Barangay Mapatag, Hamtic, making use of the local bamboos. (Photo courtesy of Balita Halin Sa Kapitolyo)

SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique – The Antique provincial government is planning to build bamboo-based housing units for 29 informal settler families relocated to Barangay Mapatag in Hamtic.

Provincial Housing Affairs and Resettlement Office (PHARO) head Eby Archangel Butiong said Friday the provincial government is working with the Homeless People's Federation of the Philippines Inc. (HPFPI), a nongovernmental organization, to develop the proposed housing project.

Butiong said the province is considering replicating a socialized housing project in Iloilo City after a benchmarking visit to HPFPI's Balay Kawayan (Bamboo Housing) at the San Isidro Relocation Site in Barangay Isidro, Jaro district.

The HPFPI is a national federation of urban poor community organizations that assists homeless people and informal settler communities.

“We have bamboo available in the province, which is why we are looking at using it to build homes for the informal settlers,” Butiong said.

The Iloilo City project uses Interlocking Compressed Earth Blocks and Cement-Bamboo Frame Technology, which could reduce construction costs by about half compared with conventional concrete housing units costing between PHP500,000 and PHP800,000 each.

Butiong said the NGO partner would help the provincial government secure funding from its donors, which would be supplemented by the province's allocation for the project.

“We have already written (to) our NGO partner about this project, and we are just waiting for construction to begin…

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