i am writing to this forum because i believe there are readers here who are in a capacity to convince policy makers. i feel gov should be thinking now on the reconstruction and rebuilding the urban areas devastated by yolanda. a yolanda housing commission should be formed to tackle mass housing. i am advocating vertical mass housing construction...5 to 10 story identical tenement buildings. some of you may have lived or have relatives at houses constructed by PHHC at projects 2, 3, and 4 at quirino dist qc, project 1 at roxas district, qc or project 6, 7 and 8, qc or even BLISS houses. these are gov mass housing programs but they are horizontal development. floor plans are identical, house appearances are identical. think how big a land area could be saved if we develop mass housing vertically that could be devoted to other uses such as green revolution parks, recreational parks, etc. let us call it massa condiminiums. why doest the gov task gov engineers and architects (or even ask students for floor plan of a unit) to design one massa condiminium. the first floor is reserved for functions/activity use, reserved parking, and for flood hardship mitigation. the upper floors will be residential of multi-income level occupants, 3 floors for rental to indigents and low income professional, the other floors are for sale to other residents who are in a posistion to buy them on installment (e.g. police, teachers, self-employed professionals, ofw dependents, gov employees, balik-bayan retirees, etc. who work near the area). the idea is to provide a place to live near or in a short commuting distance to ones place of work. units are not for investment but for owners residence only. rentals and ammortization will be by salary deduction. those who are not capable to pay monetarilly, they can pay it thru their services. vizualize building 20 identical massa condiminiun buildings in one area, then do the same in another area, then do it in another area again, how many families will benefit. of course this is a community or group housing and there will be social problems that will come up, but i believe in the resiliency of the filipinos, and solutions will come up like one building captain per building and building residents association, etc. and there are experts who can help on this. if kibuts and other communal residences were possible, why not this. on the assumption that this is a not for profit endevor but to provide jobs and housing to many, it could be done economically. when constructing this, all components should be contracted out. since many components are identical they could be mass produced, from rebars, doors, windows to easy to assemble kitchen cabinets in accordance with specs and standards. each building is contracted out to non-profit building constuction management team (BCMT) who will provide labor, management, admin personnel. labor and admin support should come from the local area, and if possible also the management. all materials supplied by the gov to the BCMT since components are identical. think of buying an assemble it yourself product but this is just in a big scale. of course there is a need to tesda train some of the labor. and of course there should be gov inspectors per building site to enforce building codes and standards so that the structure is yolandized (no short cuts and withstand hi-cat typhoon and at least intensity 7 earthquake) and these inspectors should also be trained. if the mass housing is near a tourist area, income generating ideas could be included in the building design. financing issue...pag-ibig funds, and charitable donations, pre-selling, gov dole outs (aka social funds..pdap,dap,4ps), etc. training...there are so many pinoy experts who are able to effect this and there is no need for foreign experts. since i am not a good writer, i am unable to express all that i have in my mind but maybe i have tickled your imagination that i was able to bring out a concept and you can read my mind that you are able to improve the concept. cooperatively we can do more and better. tangent to this are isuses on accountability, training, flood, standardization, job creation, peacefull cohabitation, creation of a mass housing authority, etc. if our asian neighbors are able to do vertical mass housing, yes we can too. libre lang po ang mag-dream. God bless our beloved Philippines. (i could be reached at wangadonlee@gmail)
Posted on: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 09:31:23 +0000
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