The government's housing project for Typhoon Yolanda victims is severely behind schedule. After 11 years, only about 89% of the planned 195,062 homes have been built, and many victims still have not received homes. The project also suffers from poor location access, lack of jobs nearby, inadequate utilities, and poor construction quality, which has led to many homes being empty and deteriorating quickly.

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

"pes SECEIVED | June 30, 2025 Mr. JOEBEN A. TAL General Manager National Housing Authority Elliptical Road, Diliman, Quezon City Dear General Manager Ts Pursuant to Section 2, Article IX-D of the Philippine Constitution and Section 43 of Presidential Decree (PD) No. 1445, otherwise known as the Government Auditing Code of the Philippines, we transmit herewith our report on the results of the audit of the accounts and transactions of the National Housing Authority (NHA), for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 ‘The report consists of the Independent Auditor's Report, Audited Financial Statements, Observations and Recommendations, and the Status of Implementation of Prior Years’ ‘Audit Recommendations. ‘The Auditor rendered a qualified opinion on the fairness of presentation of the financial statements (FS) of the NHA for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 because the Auditor was unable to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence to ascertain the accuracy and re"

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