GOVERNOR Ramon Guico III asked the officers of the Provincial Government Employees’ Multi-Purpose Cooperative of Pangasinan (PGEMPCOP) to consider offering a housing loan among its loan programs to help its members own houses.

Janette Asis, provincial human resource management and development officer and PGEMPCOP general manager, said that at present, the cooperative only offers salary and other short-term loans.

Asis said that the cooperative’s fund grew from P400,000 to P26 million in the last eight years, and with 1,400 members consisting of regular employees, casuals, consultants, and job order workers of the provincial government.

“I encountered some of our job order workers, who have been here for 15 years, 20 years. I asked where they lived and they said they were informal settlers somewhere. So, that is I think what we need to provide,” said Governor Guico.

Presently, the province needs 17,000 thousand houses a year and this is the reason why he asked the conversion of the Provincial Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Center into a housing authority that will map out and build more houses for Pangasinenses.

The governor said the cooperative should also focus on increasing its present membership since the provincial government has 6,000 employees. (PangasinanPIO)

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