Manila, May 17 -- More informal settler families (ISFs) in Valenzuela City are moving closer to owning the land they have occupied for decades through the expanded Pambansang Pabahay Para sa Pilipino (4PH) Program, the flagship housing program of the Marcos administration.

Over 200 residents from the Bagong Pag-asa Neighborhood Association of PARADA, Inc. in Barangay Parada received assistance under the Enhanced Community Mortgage Program (ECMP), allowing them to secure the 2,318-square-meter property where many of them have built their homes and raised families.

The Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD), through the Social Housing Finance Corporation (SHFC), awarded over PHP9 million in assistance covering land ...