Council shelves proposed vertical housing in the city

BARMM GOVERNORS:

Reschedule barangay, SK polls

COTABATO CITY (MindaNews) — Five of six governors of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) on Saturday reiterated their call for the postponement of the October 30 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections in the Bangsamoro region until after the decommissioning of combatants of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) shall have been completed.

The call, reiterating their February 20, 2023 “urgent appeal” to President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., was made during the Regional Peace and Order

(RPOC) meeting held in Maimbung, Sulu, on Saturday.

In a press statement, Basilan Governor Jim Hataman Salliman said he meeting seeking the creation of a Technical Working Group that will study

BY ROJEAN GRACE PATUMBON AND JOANA MAE VILLANUEVA/UM INTERNS

Vertical housing is typically apartment buildings and communal spaces common in metropolitan areas. As the population grows, so does the space to build housing.

So, the Social Housing Finance Corporation (SHFC) suggested focusing on vertical development to address the 6.5 million