QUEZON City Mayor Herbert M. Bautista, Pag-ibig Fund Chairman Darlene Marie B. Berberabe, and Habitat for Humanity director Ricardo N. Jacinto agree to pool  resources for Quezon City's massive, socialized housing and resettlement program. 

Mayor Bautista unveiled the city's 1.58 hectare eco village at Barangay Payatas, Quezon City, which will house from 300 to almost 500 families. QC-LGU purchased the property and will invest P23 million in road, drainage, streetlights and other infrastructure works. 

The Home Development Mutual Fund or Pag-ibig will provide the financing scheme for the beneficiaries who will be able to amortize their new homes at an average of P2, 000 a month over a 30-year period. Habitat has committed to assist in housing construction, as well as source additional funding for the dwelling units. This partnership will foster sustainability of this project, by ensuring the return on investments that can finance the next round of low-cost housing units.

Moreover, this pooling of resources will improve the access by urban poor families to well-structured homes in efficiently organized communities. Site development plans prepared by the city government have factored in not only affordability, but also large, breathable open spaces (58% of the lot will be devoted to the residences, while 42% will be allocated for roads and parks). Another plus factor is that this new village is right door to a public school, the Justice Cecilia Muñoz Palma High School. The beneficiaries will include the city's public school teachers and informal settler families.

Partnerships for housing have been a consistent feature of the Bautista Administration's housing thrust because of the tremendous requirements needed by Quezon City to resettle its thousand of informal settlers. It continuously works with the National Housing Authority to avail of its ready dwelling units, to facilitate the immediate transfer of urban poor dwellers in danger areas. Mayor Bautista has determinedly pressed the utility companies dto accept responsibility for providing resettlement areas for the poor living precariously on water pipeliens and under transmission lines, and this is effort is gradually bearing fruit.