Senators dismayed over ‘pitiful’ housing budget, but P9.6B for intelligence

His colleagues echoed his call for a bigger budget for the settlement department, which would get a measly 0.08-percent share of the proposed P4.5-trillion national budget for 2021, or about 0.02 percent of the country’s gross domestic product.

“I am making this statement preliminarily to show the priorities that we are confronted with. There is a consensus, at least among senators attending this hearing, that the housing sector needs assistance because of the very meager budget that is being assigned to you,” Drilon said. Tolentino noted how the funding for housing projects remained spread out across various departments, which, he said, defeated the purpose of establishing the settlement department as a separate housing agency.Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto called out the National Housing Authority , now overseen by the new department, over its continuing program to provide low-cost housing to police and military personnel.

“We emphasize that while shelter is the third most basic [human] need, our budget is the lowest among all the departments,” Rivera said. Drilon cited how the 2021 NEP allocated only P4 billion for the housing department, while it earmarked P19.3 billion for the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, which had been flagged as a lump sum in the budget.

melvingasconINQ Pero may budget na P388 million to an artificial white turning black sand.

melvingasconINQ Power of the purse...hope the Senate will make the right decision when reviewing the budget, and put public/Filipino people as priority

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