{"id":31736,"date":"2014-11-17T01:23:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T17:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=31736"},"modified":"2014-11-17T01:23:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T17:23:56","slug":"qc-eyes-unpaid-contractors-taxes-to-fund-housing-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/17\/qc-eyes-unpaid-contractors-taxes-to-fund-housing-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"QC eyes unpaid contractor\u2019s taxes to fund housing projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18388\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18388\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/housing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18388 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/housing-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Housing projects in the Philippines. Photo courtesy of Asia Green Buildings.\" width=\"604\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/housing-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/housing-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/housing-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Housing projects in the Philippines. Photo courtesy of Asia Green Buildings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Quezon City government wants to build more housing projects for informal settlers, especially families relocated from danger zones, from unpaid contractor\u2019s taxes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could not delay our housing program and leave hundreds or thousands of families in danger. It is our administration\u2019s thrust to create and build decent houses for informal settlers where they could safely live,\u201d said Mayor Herbert Bautista in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista said he has ordered negotiations with the PhilHealth (Philippine Health Insurance Corporation), Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) and Metro Rail Transit Corporation on collection of their contractor\u2019s tax due to the city.<\/p>\n<p>From PhilHealth alone, Bautista revealed that the city has almost Php 75 million collectible in contractor\u2019s tax, a huge amount that could finance at least a hundred row houses for informal settler families (ISFs).<\/p>\n<p>He said that PhilHealth could convert its tax due to the city into a housing program for QC\u2019s informal settlers.<\/p>\n<p>This, the mayor said, is also applicable to other companies or agencies which also have unpaid taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The city also has Php 97 million tax collectible from the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), which if collected will be a great help in pursuing more housing projects for the city\u2019s underprivileged.<\/p>\n<p>The city government has been awarded by Galing Pook Foundation for its socialized housing program which is building well-organized Bistekville housing projects with multi-purpose facilities for public services such as health and day-care centers.<\/p>\n<p>Bistekville projects are being built in eight different areas in QC. Two of them &#8212; at Payatas and Barangay Kaligayahan &#8212; are already completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Quezon City government wants to build more housing projects for informal settlers, especially families relocated from danger &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":18388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}