The low-cost housing program for City Hall employees is near realization.
Mayor Benjamin S. Lim is very optimistic that the low-cost housing program for the city hall employees will be implemented sooner in cooperation with the Pag-IBIG fund.
“We are continuously coming up with programs by which we can improve the lives of our employees, and this low-cost housing is just one of them,” Mayor Lim said.
The housing program will be located in a 10-hectare lot at Talibaew, Calasiao, which was purchased by the city government in 1994.
According to city planning and development coordinator Romeo Rosario, an embankment activity in the five-hectare portion of the lot was already done, while a road within the subdivision is also being prepared.
Rosario said that unlike other housing programs, the housing units which will be built here will not be uniform.      
“The city hall employees have the discretion as to the house size and design of their choice depending on their capacity to amortize,” Rosario said.
Rosario said that the 10-hectare lot can accommodate 500 units at 100 sq.m. each.
The city government employees held an assembly on February 2 at Pinkies restaurant to discuss the housing program with representatives from Pag-IBIG.   
During the activity, Mayor Lim’s chief of staff Brian Lim ensured that the Pag-IBIG is ready to fund the project after all documents needed are submitted.
Aside from the housing program, the soft loan for city government employees was also discussed.
City administrator Rafael Baraan said that the city government allocated P4million seed money for the undertaking, while a private individual provided P3million for the same.
Baraan said that the mayor wants to implement the soft loan program come February 12. (Sunshine D. Robles)