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We shall also implement sustainable solutions through institutionalized
policies to combat poverty and provide basic needs, including housing, Email Address:
health, education and jobs for the poor, rather than the “stop gap” measures
and empty political gestures of the past and present.

We commit ourselves to the following goals and principles:

1. No evictions without decent relocation.

We will end illegal forced evictions. We will not allow any public or
private authority to evict families and leave them homeless in the street.
The government must provide decent relocation, near-city or in-city, if
possible, quality housing, adequate basic services and jobs.

We will not tolerate a situation where wage earners have to stay in the
city to work while the other members of the family stay in distant
relocation centers. This separation weakens and often fractures family
life. We will not institutionalize such situations by building sites in the city
where they will live apart from their families. As the work force in the
cities, the poor, up to the extent possible, should be given the
opportunity to stay in the cities.

We will strengthen efforts to achieve balance and equitable urbanrural

development and established sustainable livelihood activities in
relocation areas to proactively address the problems of in-migration and
informal housing.

2. Provide support for area upgrading and in-city resettlement.

We will shift the emphasis in our housing program to area upgrading and
in-city resettlement through the Community Mortgage Program (CMP).
We will accelerate CMP and promote its localization (LCMP).

We will strive to proclaim land in favor of as many poor families as

 possible anchored on the Comprehensive Land Use Plans of their local
governments and in consultation with their beneficiary families.

We will order a review of all Presidential Proclamations to determine the

status of their implementation. We will not revoke any Presidential
Proclamation without thorough study and adequate consultation.

3. Provide basic services that benefit poor communities.

Over the six years of our term, we will significantly increase the health
and education allocations in our national budget. This will bring us
closer to the level of spending of our neighboring countries. We will
extend health insurance coverage to all urban poor people, put an end
to shifting in public schools and provide full set of quality textbooks for
our public school children.

We will work with the private sector, utility cooperatives and the donor
community to provide access to water and electricity for all urban poor
communities. We will encourage or public utilities and governmentowned
and controlled corporations to incorporate these goals as an integral
part of their corporate social responsibility.

4. Housing budget.

Our desire is to have a government which will provide adequate housing

for every Filipino and protect their housing rights.

To this end, we are committed to support and replicate successful

housing programs to cover the estimated housing need by providing
sufficient funds through the use of the Comprehensive and Integrated
Shelter Financing Act (CISFA) and other financing sources.

We will also work with the Local Government Units and the private
sector, especially those in the financial sector, in coming up with new,
innovative and sustainable housing and financial products that will
provide access to housing to the marginalized and poor of our country.

We will strengthen government’s partnership with non-government

organizations and support people’s initiative to provide the poor with
housing.

5. Jobs.

We will create large-scale public works programs that can generate

substantial number of jobs for poor men and women. At the onset of our
term, we will emphasize labor-intensive public works programs that can
generate significant numbers of jobs for our poor people and give them
access to at least the minimum amounts of money, food and dignity
needed for their daily survival and well-being. We will help those in the
informal sector to avail of relevant incentives, services and benefits,
such as access to social security and other forms of assistance.

Recognizing that the primary and most important resource of our country
is its people, we will emphasize the creation of jobs that empower the
work force, jobs that build capacity and create opportunities for the poor
and marginalized. This requires advance training and preparation for
appropriate skills needed for modern economy. This also presumes
sound elementary and high school education. We promise to focus on
generating jobs that will encourage entrepreneurship including-pro poor
tourism. We will create an environment that is conducive to growth,
competitiveness and full-employment.

6. Increased cooperation with local government units.

We will work with Local Government Units for the full implementation of
the provisions of the UDHA and to empower them to address the
 housing needs of their constituents through existing provisions in the
UDHA such as the provision of land for socialized housing and the
inventory of informal settlers within their respective jurisdictions.

To encourage Local Government Units to take the lead in addressing

housing needs, we will provide incentives to LGUs like co-financing
schemes, technical assistance and other support services so that they
could take an active role in socialized housing.

We will institutionalize and strengthen participatory shelter planning at

the local level and identify other fund sources to support housing
programs particularly for informal settlers at the local level.

7. Peace.

I will make every effort possible to begin sustainable and uninterrupted

peace negotiations in Mindanao. We will not give up this peace-making
effort. We will respond to the needs of dislocated/displaced people in
Mindanao due to continued conflict between Christian and Muslim
brothers.

8. Post-Ondoy Rehabilitation Program.

We recognize that most people living in risk prone areas are forced by
circumstances to live in these areas because government has failed to
give them viable alternatives. This is the basic premise of the
Post-Ondoy Rehabilitation Program.

We will appoint capable persons to plan and implement intensive

post-Ondoy rehabilitation projects. We will explore new approaches that
address both the housing and livelihood needs of affected families. We
will review Executive Order 854 in consultation with the affected
communities and look for appropriate solutions for the families living in
Manggahan Floodway and Lupang Arenda. We will ensure that local
and international public and private efforts are closely coordinated.

9. Appointment

The appointment of reform-minded persons is essential to the attainment

of the objective of HUDCC to institute reforms and steer this office and
other shelter agencies to become more responsive, efficient and
effective agencies in the delivery of housing services to poor families.
Cabinet positions and portfolios including the Undersecretaries and
Assistant Secretaries would be distributed among the three major
islands (Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao) without sacrificing competence
and trustworthiness criteria.

We will appoint a person with a track record and demonstrated capacity

in delivering social housing as HUDCC Chairperson. We will appoint
NGO and PO representatives in the boards of the Social Housing
Finance Corporation (SHFC) and in the council of the Housing and
Urban Development Coordinating Council. We will also appoint an NGO
representative with observer status to the board of the National Housing
Authority (NHA). We will also appoint an NHA General Manager, the
SHFC President and Chairman of the Presidential Commission for the
Urban Poor in consultation with civil society groups.

10. Participation & Stakeholdership.

We will emphasize the role of stakeholders in finding solutions to the

problems that they face. In fact, the process that we will go through to
provide the details of this plan we have presented today will be
consultative and transparent.

All these goals with the urban poor will be part of our development agenda
 and platform to build an inclusive urban society.

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