DHSUD activates shelter clusters – BusinessWorld Online
THE Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) has activated government shelter clusters for families that might be affected by Super Typhoon Ragasa (local name: Nando).
DHSUD Assistant Secretary for Disaster Hernando M. Caraig, Jr. on Saturday issued a memorandum urging several regional offices of the DHSUD to activate their respective shelter clusters, it said in a statement.
Housing agencies that were covered in the order include those in Ilocos Norte, Cagayan Valley, central Luzon, Calabarzon, Mimaropa, Bicol Region, and the Cordillera Administrative Region.
The order is meant to ensure that DHSUD’s regional offices are ready to extend shelter assistance to affected families at the earliest possible time.
The directive was issued in line with the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council’s (NDRRMC) Memorandum No. 247, series of 2025.
The DHSUD also heads the National Government’s Shelter Cluster under NDRRMC Memorandum 01-2022.
In 2023, the agency launched its Integrated Disaster Shelter Assistance Program, which provides cash assistance to families whose houses were affected by natural or man-made calamities.
The state weather bureau said Nando has intensified into a super typhoon as of 8 a.m. on Sunday.
Nando is expected to intensify further as it reaches the northernmost part of the country. It is seen to landfall over or pass near the Babuyan Islands or Batanes late Monday. — Beatriz Marie D. Cruz
