HOUSING

Socio-Cultural and Institutional Challenges for Effective

Delivery of Housing Course Description in the Philippines
Module 1.0 – Course overview
What do we expect
to learn in housing?
“A house is not a home unless it
contains food and fire for the mind
as well as the body.”

-Benjamin Franklin
Housing is a one of the components of Urban
and regional planning.

The housing component of a plan looks at both

the quantity and quality of housing in the
community.
Urban plan component

L.E.H.T.U.U
Land use Housing Utilities

Environmental Transportation Urban design

Urban plan component
Housing
To help figure out the
best locations for future
housing development and
to identify areas with
existing housing.
Coordinated with other plan components, like land use and
transportation, to help figure out the best locations for future
housing development and to identify areas with existing
housing that may require redevelopment.
It’s intrinsically related to sometimes volatile trend;
such as rapid population growth or changing financial
markets.
The Role of Housing
• Deep impact on both the people who live there and the
community.
• Important element of comprehensive plan because of the
close relationship between housing, land use, and the
need for public services.
• Satisfies a basic need for shelter and contributes to the
social, economic, and environmental well-being of the
community and its residents.
Philippine Housing Situation
The World Bank (2018) expects the country’s
urbanization rate to reach 61.8% by 2050.
Philippine Housing Situation
Indicate that more Filipinos prefer to reside
and work within or near urban growth
centers rather than in rural areas, where
economic opportunities are limited.
Philippine Housing Situation

“Housing is a critical component in the Philippine

economic recovery from the debilitating impact of
the COVID-19 pandemic”

Representative Stella Luz Quimbo (Housing Series Virtual Talks of the Organization
of Socialized Housing Developers of the Philippines (OSHDP).
Philippine Housing Situation
“Poor Filipino families have to contend living
in a 6.4 square meter space, the size of a
billiard table, while the wealthy comfortably
stay in their 38.5 square meter homes.”

Economist-Congressman Stella Luz Quimbo

Philippine Housing Situation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX7m1ei0khs
HOUSING
Socio-Cultural and Institutional Challenges for Effective
Delivery of Housing Course Description in the Philippines
Module 1.0 – Course overview