The National Housing Authority failed to complete the target number of housing units for Yolanda victims, achieving only 73% of the goal, due to delays and slow turnover, which negatively affected beneficiaries.

Why It Matters

Recommended Actions

• Initiate legal action against contractors who refuse to refund the unrecouped advances, if warranted;

Original Audit Finding Excerpt

"Agency Action Plan Reason for 7 Partial/Delay/ Ref. Audit Observations Audit Recommendations . Target Implementation Status of Non- Action Taken/Action to be ‘ Action Plan Person/Dept. Date Implementation Implementation, Taken , Responsible To if applicable c. Enforce collection of Not Implemented amortizations from awardees; d. Reconcile the balance of Not Implemented liability from NHMFC with NHMFC records and recognize accrued interest; e. Revisit the policy on the Not Implemented prohibition of sale of awarded housing units to third parties; and f. Hasten the plan to save the Not Implemented MRBs to provide a safe place to live for the beneficiaries and avoid greater loss of life and property in case of occurrence of earthquake. CY 2021 Out of the revised target | For the low occupancy and slow The tenor of the AAR housing units (HUs) of 212,618 | pace of transfer of turnover of 7 i Observation | under the Yolanda Permanent | completed housing units, we recommendation is the No. 15"

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