Housing czar Jose Ramon Aliling on Wednesday lamented that the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development has given too much attention into building more houses in the past three years, setting aside its regulatory functions.
Aliling promised to immediately strengthen the agency’s regulatory functions on real-estate developers and practitioners as well as on the homeowners associations.
While he recognized the significance of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s Pambansang Pabahay para sa Pilipino (4PH) program, Aliling said DHSUD must put equal effort on its regulatory functions to have a greater impact to the housing sector.
“We are dead serious here. The problem of DHSUD in the previous three years is, it has focused on 4PH (only). DHSUD is a regulatory body. We serve the unit buyers, the developers and the other stakeholders,” Aliling said.
“We will be catching up with those things, and that we will give more attention on them,” he emphasized.
Republic Act 11201 approved on Feb. 14, 2019, paved the way for the creation of DHSUD to act as the primary national government entity responsible for the management of housing, human settlements and urban development.
“We will look at all of them under the remaining three years of the President. We will not leave anything behind our obligations as a department. Based on our Charter, we will fulfill them,” Aliling said.
