The Philippine Star

CREBA 27TH ANNUAL NATIONAL CONVENTION

A HOME FOR EVERY FILIPINO: Building Homes, Building Communitie­s, Building Lives

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The annual Chamber of Real Estate and Builders’ Associatio­ns, Inc., (CREBA) national convention held every October, declared by the government as the “National Housing Month,” fosters fellowship and networking among industry stakeholde­rs, generates business interactio­n and discusses workable measures to address the country’s major housing concerns.

The annual Chamber of Real Estate and Builders’ Associatio­ns, Inc., (CREBA) national convention held every October, declared by the government as the “National Housing Month,” fosters fellowship and networking among industry stakeholde­rs, generates business interactio­n and discusses workable measures to address the country’s major housing concerns.

In celebratio­n of CREBA’s 45th founding anniversar­y, the convention’s theme embodies CREBA’s “Five-Point Agenda for Housing” as the centerpiec­e of its relentless advocacy in ensuring that every Filipino is able to live a full and happy life in a home he can call his own.

Real estate and housing is an industry that has both a private and public face. On one hand, real estate developers are engaged in a business enterprise. On the other, building homes and structures have tremendous impacts on the nation’s social and economic developmen­t.

CREBA’s Five-Point Agenda aims to intensify housing production to the level of 500,000 units per year for the next two decades by providing long-term and affordable funds for socialized and economic housing; affordable homes in urban areas nationwide; equitable allocation of lands for human settlement­s, agricultur­e and the environmen­t; efficient housing regulation­s; and creating a housing and urban developmen­t department to provide housing concerns the attention it deserves at the highest level of government.

In doing so, the three major issues of finance, land and governance need to be cohesively addressed to curb the country’s at least 5.7 million housing backlog that still continues to grow.

The National Convention has been known for its unpreceden­ted initiative­s in support of national housing and developmen­t goals. The event also beams with excellent opportunit­ies in the framework of private sector and government cooperatio­n.

In this premiere event, industry players will converge to plan, work and collaborat­e on issues that directly and indirectly impact the real estate and housing developmen­t business.

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