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National Housing Authority Housing 1 - 1st SEM - 23 24
National Housing Authority Housing 1 - 1st SEM - 23 24
Objectives
1. Discuss the role and function of the National Housing Authority as a key shelter
agency of the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development.
The National Housing Authority (NHA) is the sole national agency mandated to engage in
housing production for low income families. It traces its roots to the People’s Homesite
Corporation (PHC), the first government housing agency established on 14 October 1938
and to the National Housing Commission (NHC) which was created seven years later, on 17
September 1945. These two agencies, the PHC and NHC, were eventually merged on 4
October 1947 into the People’s Homesite and Housing Corporation (PHHC).