MANILA - Vice President Leni Robredo said she has set a December deadline to fix "defective" policies that threaten to set back the government's goal of providing affordable housing for 5.7 million poor families.

Roughly 80 percent of socialized housing projects have no immediate access to water and mass transportation, said Robredo, who chairs the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council.

"Nasa stage tayo na nirereview natin lahat ng defective policies [We are at the stage when we are reviewing all defective policies]," she said.