The housing project has not met its target, with only 84.75% of the planned units completed after 10 years, due to suspensions, delays, and budget issues, leaving beneficiaries without homes.

Why It Matters

Recommended Actions

• Management require the concerned departments to minimize the delays in the project implementation and ensure the immediate completion of housing units by: Ensuring full coordination with the concemed government agencies, particularly the LGUs and Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to address and resolve the issues/problems contributing to the delayed construction/completion, and to promote effective and more synchronized planning and implementation of projects
• Closely monitoring of the timelines for the completion of projects by the contractors and address the causes of the delays/suspension and grant of time extensions
• Acting immediately on terminated contracts with issued notice and order of termination
• And For projects where LGUs serve as implementing agencies, coordinating and strictly monitoring of the project accomplishment for the immediate completion of the housing units.

Original Audit Finding Excerpt

"After a decade of the Yolanda Permanent Housing Projects’ (YPHP) implementation, only 171,230 housing units (HUs), representing 84.75 per cent of the revised target of 202,036 HUs have been completed. The slow progress has been primarily attributed to suspensions, delays, terminations, budget realignments, and budget constraints of the projects, depriving beneficiaries of their homes that were destroyed by Typhoon Yolanda. Furthermore, the low occupancy of the YPHP caused by challenges related to transportation access, inadequate livelihood opportunities, insufficient access to water and electricity, and the use of substandard materials in the construction of the HUs caused its fast deterioration of unoccupied HUs. We recommended that Management require the concerned departments to minimize the delays in the project implementation and ensure the immediate completion of housing units by: Ensuring full coordination with the concerned government agencies, particularly the LGUs and Depa"

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