QC declares 2,539-sqm Tuazon property as socialized housing site

QUEZON CITY Mayor Herbert M. Bautista has approved an ordinance declaring three parcels of land in Barangay Pansol as a socialized housing site. In a statement released yesterday, the city government said the 2,539-square meter (sqm) area in Sitio Kaingin 1, registered under the name of Antonio Tuazon, is “located within the area for priority development and has been forfeited in favor of the city government.” The ordinance was authored by Councilors Franz S. Pumaren and Marivic Co-Pilar. “It is high time that the concern for affordable and decent housing at Kaingin 1 and 2, Barangay Pansol, District 3, Quezon City be developed to address their struggle for security of land tenure,” the ordinance reads. The local government cited that Republic Act 7279 or the Urban Development and Housing Act “mandates that lands within existing areas for priority development shall be covered in socialized housing programs and should be on an on-site development if found more practicable and advantageous to the beneficiaries.”