After more than a decade of construction, the National Housing Authority (NHA) aims to complete all housing projects meant for survivors of Super Typhoon Yolanda (international name Typhoon Haiyan) by December 2025.

“If there are no delays caused by terminations of contract this year, we can assure that all projects will be completed by December,” NHA Eastern Visayas regional director Constancio Antiniero said in a briefing Thursday.

Termination occurs if a developer abandons a project, causing delays in the process since the NHA has to look for a new developer that will continue the project.

Antiniero also noted that the pace of completion largely depends on the availability of funds.

As of the first quarter of 2025, the NHA in Eastern Visayas has completed 54,255 units out of the target 58,619 units for the region.

Of the total completed houses under the list of original beneficiaries of the Yolanda Permanent Housing Program, 13,777 are in Tacloban City, 13,765 in Leyte, 7,918 in Biliran, 5,383 in Eastern Samar, and 6,590 in Samar province.

Completed houses under the additional list of beneficiaries totalled to 6,822.

There are still 4,364 ongoing units under the post-Yolanda housing projects in Tacloban City and four provinces of the Eastern Visayas region.

The housing units are given as grants, at no cost at all, to qualified beneficiaries who were residing in identified hazard-prone areas when one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded devastated parts of the country in November 2013. (PNA)