Friday , 29 March 2024

UN housing agency builds a thousand homes in Marawi

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) has turned over a thousand houses to internally displaced families affected by the Marawi last week.

UN-Habitat awarded the last 462 permanent houses as it marked the end of its four-year engagement in the war-torn city.

The funding support of US$10-million came from the Japanese government where the houses were built on the land procured and developed by the Social Housing Finance Corporation and the National Housing Authority.

The UN-Habitat said the internally displaced persons have been living in tents, transitory shelters, with relatives or with friends or renting within Marawi or nearby provinces while others went as far as the National Capital Region to find sources of income.

The rehabilitation of the southern Philippine city has yet to be completed nearly five years after the fighting between government troops and radical militants left Marawi uninhabitable.

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