After more than two decades of waiting, some 700 families in Caloocan City have finally received their land titles under the government’s flagship Expanded National Housing for the Filipino (4PH) Program.
Secretary Jose Ramon Aliling of the Department of Human Settlement and Urban Development (DHSUD) led the distribution of housing ownership titles at the Caloocan Sports Complex, marking another milestone in the government’s drive to provide secure, decent, and affordable housing for Filipino families.
Aliling cited the event as a tangible outcome of the Chief Executive’s’ directive to strengthen public housing delivery under the expanded 4PH program.
“In accordance with the directive of the President, DHSUD will continue to work with all our key shelter agencies in promoting and expanding Expanded 4PH so that more Filipino families can have their own homes that are safe, decent, and affordable for a more dignified life,” he said.
“The National Housing Authority’s s awarding of the titles is proof of our administration’s intensified commitment to help make the lives of our countrymen easier,” he added.
The title awards was pursuant to Presidential Proclamation No. 366 covering the Tala Development Project covering 149 hectares in Caloocan.
About 120 hectares of the land were devoted to leprosy patients, censured families and qualified residents.
The remaining 29 hectares were used for low-rise residential units and barracks.
The Tala Project’s beginnings were traced back to 1995, when then President Fidel V. Ramos, declared portions of the Tala Estate as alienable and disposable lands.
The NHA was tasked to carry out the disposition program in coordination with the Department of Health and residents’ associations.
The project was later expanded in 2000 through Proclamation No. 366 by then President Joseph Estrada, allocating additional 50 hectares for Hansen’s disease (leprosy) patients and their families.
