The Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) and the University of the Philippines (UP) will soon build a housing project under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s flagship Expanded Pambansang Pabahay para sa Pilipino (4PH) Program.
DHSUD Secretary Jose Ramon Aliling and UP President Angelo Jimenez on Friday led the groundbreaking ceremony at the project site in Paciano Rizal, Bay, Laguna, to start construction of the first housing project in UP Los Baños after 45 years.
The on-campus rental housing project will initially benefit about 1,000 low-income employees and students of UP Los Baños, as well as informal settler families within its vicinity.
“In accordance with the directive of President Marcos Jr., the Expanded 4PH will continue to be expanded so that we can help more Filipinos in their need for decent, safe, and affordable housing,” Aliling said in Filipino.
“The purpose of this rental housing project is to provide a more dignified lifestyle to our countrymen who are most in need,” he added.
This marks the first shelter project in 45 years since the university’s last project implemented during the time of former president Ferdinand Marcos Sr. In the 1980s.
