By ROGER M. BALANZA
A Davao City Hall official yesterday said the city government is not being anti-business if it bans housing developments in Dumoy, which is home to the aquifer that provides the city with drinking water.
Mario Luis Jacinto, city planning and development coordinator, said housing developers could take a pick at [...]
By ROGER M. BALANZA
Vice Mayor Sara Duterte, acting Mayor, would not stand in the way of the demolition of nine houses declared as squatters sandwiched between two port facilities and impeding a natural waterway in Ilang, Bunawan.
This developed even as the nine families waged a last-minute attempt to stay the demolition [...]
Government agencies question Shrine Hills projects
By ROGER M. BALANZA
Two government agencies yesterday confirmed two high-end housing in Shrine Hills in Matina have not yet secured permits, as residents continue to fear landslides and floodings when developments are started.
The Mines and Geosciences Bureau said it has not granted permit to Crown Commodities of [...]
BY ROGER M. BALANZA
DMC Urban Property Developers Inc turned over Friday to unit owners of Ecoland 4000 Residences, its first project in Davao City, proving wrong critics saying condominiums could be a hazardous venture in this premier city in southern Mindanao.
Leonora Gutierrez, area manager for Mindanao of Consunji-owned DMC-UPDI, said all units have been sold [...]
As thousands of borrowers in Davao City defaulting from payment on government housing loans stand to loose their homes, Vice President Noli de Castro said he could not do anything with Balikatan Housing Financial Inc., a subsidiary of the Germany-based Deutsche BanK, on a foreclosure spree.
We no longer have control over this, the issue of [...]
HOUSING CZARS. Vice President Noli de Castro, also chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) and the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB), sits side by side with Davao City Councilor Arnolfo Ricardo Cabling, chair of the Davao City Council committee on housing, rural and urban development, and author of the [...]
City to resume funding urban poor housing
BY ROGER M. BALANZA
The Davao City Council has lifted a suspension on grant of housing assistance to the urban poor sector, reviving hopes of thousands of members of urban poor homeless associations.
The assistance under the City Land Reform Program was stopped two years ago on [...]
Muslim leader backs
Sirawan hog farms
Religion should not matter when it comes to progress and development.
A Davao City Muslim leader took this stand yesterday as he supported a proposal to legitimize hog farms in Muslim-dominated Barangay Sirawan, even over doubts he could violate Muslim teachings.
Pork is haram (forbidden) among Muslims, but Sirawan [...]
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