Philippine Perspective On Housing
Philippine Perspective On Housing
Philippine Perspective On Housing
HOUSING
The Philippine housing industry believes that every Filipino family has the right to live with
dignity in the comfort of one’s own home regardless of economic status. It aims to eliminate the
housing backlog by the year 2030.
The Philippine housing sector has enormous potential for growth, as demand for living spaces
continue to increase. Through several industry-led initiatives, the sector hopes to sustain its
robust growth and development – at affordable prices for the Filipino household.
ABOUT HOUSING
The housing backlog is 3.9 million households. Assuming that production of housing units would
average 200,000 units every year from 2012 to 2030, the backlog would still persist and hit 6.5
million households by 2030. The highest demand would come from the economic housing
segment, followed by socialized housing, and lastly by low-cost housing.
The low-cost, socialized, and economic housing units account for a large share of housing
production. From 2010 to 2011, housing production in the high-end, mid-end, and low-cost
categories increased, while production of houses in economic and socialized housing was
relatively flat. From 2000 to 2011, economic, socialized, and low-cost housing cornered close to
70% of total housing production. During this same period, the socialized segment accounted for
27%, the economic segment accounted for 29%, and low cost segment 13%.
As of 2011, there are 3,164 players in the housing industry. Despite the huge number of firms
engaged in housing, only a few firms dominate the industry. Most of these firms are highly
integrated developers that are engaged in various real estate developments besides housing.
Many other firms are into retail real estate, hotels, commercial office buildings, and industrial
estate development.
The Subdivision and Housing Developers’ Association (SHDA) is the largest organization of
housing developers in the Philippines, counting 160 members from its chapters in Luzon,
Visayas, and Mindanao. Other industry participants are members of the Chamber of Real Estate
and Builders’ Associations (CREBA), the Real Estate Brokers Association of the Philippines,
Inc. (REBAP), the Philippine Association of Real Estate Brokers (PAREB), the National Real
Estate Association of the Philippines (NREA), and the the Organization of Socialized Housing
Developers of the Philippines (OSHDP).