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I was very happy when I heard there is a proposed ordinance calling for the provision of homes and lots for the hundreds of local government employees. If I’m not mistaken, the proposal was pitched in by City Councilor Manuel Patrimonio. If this proposal will be passed and funded, the woes and burden of many government employees who do not own houses will be alleviated.

This proposal is a product of Councilor Patrimonio’s observation that there are a number of employees who are just renting their domiciles for a long time now, or those who may have constructed their own houses but do not own the parcels of land their houses were built on.

Under this ordinance, the lands purchased, or will be purchased by the City government, can also be utilized as housing sites for regular/permanent employees.

Those landless who are presented renting houses and apartments will be the first priority while the second priority are those who own houses but whose lands are not their own as certified by the Office of the Assessor and Registry of Deeds.

In the scheme, the beneficiaries will be paying a monthly amortization to be collected by the city government payable over a specific period of time including penalty for delayed payments.

Based on the proposed ordinance, lots awarded including any fixed improvements therein shall not be transferable, except on the following circumstances: by way of hereditary succession; execution of a Deed of Absolute Sale between the City Government and the beneficiary-awardee upon full payment of the purchase price; any contract entered into by the beneficiary-awardee for the purpose of selling, transferring, renting or otherwise disposing of his rights on the awarded housing unit or home lot to another party, without the written consent of the City Government, shall be declared as null and void and if beneficiary-Awardee fails to occupy the awarded housing unit or home lot after the lapse of three months from the time of the award, shall be considered to have forfeited his/her right to said housing unit or home lot.

In a nutshell, I believe this is a good idea.

Owning one’s own home has been an elusive dream of every City Hall worker. I would say, this might just be the solution that many people have been waiting for to all the cumbersome obligations they have in paying monthly rents, in dealing with inconsiderate landlords, and their being in constant fear that they might be evicted and forced to leave due to delayed payments (although the law says a landlord cannot just immediately evict a tenant as there is a process to follow). The embarrassment of facing a pompous and a very insensitive landlady is always a moment that all tenants try to avoid.

I’m just wondering about a few things — has this idea been actually proposed in the Council? Or it’s still a “seed idea” that needs drafting? If I remember right, during the time of former Mayor Chiquiting Sagarbarria, there was also the talk of providing homes for the employees but it never materialized. A search for a location was conducted but the idea did not bear fruit.

So I’m hoping that this proposed concept of Councilor Patrimonio will really bear fruit for the good of the people.

As French philosopher Gaston Bachelard once said, “The house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”

That’s how important a house is, and moreso when you actually own it.

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