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Employers must provide transport, lodging during modified lockdown: Palace

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 18 02:44 PM

Employers must provide transportation or housing to their workers, Malacañang said Monday as businesses in Metro Manila partially opened following the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »

'Double whammy': Eastern Samar pleads for food, housing materials as Ambo kills 4

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 17 12:10 PM

Eastern Samar is in need of food, water, and housing materials after the country's first storm Ambo killed 4 residents, displaced thousands, and destroyed evacuation and quarantine facilities in the province, its governor said Sunday. Read more »

Pag-IBIG, state housing borrowers get 3-month payment relief

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 12 01:05 PM

Consumers with housing loans under state agencies and government-owned and controlled corporations will be given a 3-month payment moratorium to cushion the impact of COVID-19, an official said Tuesday.    Read more »

COVID19 and the least of our brethren

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Mar 15 04:00 AM

The Philippines' capital, Metro Manila, will face a nightmare should community transmission crop up in urban poor communities. Read more »

LOOK: Temporary home for Taal ‘pulo’ evacuees

Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 01 06:24 AM

Batangueños displaced from Taal Volcano Island can have a place they can call home, even for a while. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: January 31, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 01 12:54 AM

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Taal evacuees find new home

Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 31 11:00 PM

A man who left behind his home in Taal Volcano Island prepares to move in temporarily to a government housing project in Ibaan town, Batangas on Friday. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: January 29, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 30 05:10 AM

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One last look at home

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 29 04:10 PM

Ernesto Vergara, in a green shirt, looks on as neighbors help him gather what they can from his home in Brgy Alas-as in Taal Volcano Island on Thursday. Read more »

Isko on 2020 focus: Tondominium, reviving Manila

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 07 11:12 AM

MANILA - Manila Mayor Isko Moreno on Tuesday said the city government will be moving forward with its social amelioration programs, 6 months after he took over as mayor.  Read more »

Pag-IBIG Fund services now accessible online

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 12 11:49 PM

State-run housing mutual fund Pag-IBIG launched its virtual platform, making its services accessible online.  Read more »

Pag-IBIG approves contribution hike

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 26 11:02 PM

State-run housing mutual fund Pag-IBIG has approved an increase in members' contribution rates for the first time in more than 3 decades. But some labor groups believe the initial P50 hike is not enough. Read more »

Ignoring peril, Yolanda survivors rebuild homes on sites of ruin

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 07 03:58 PM

Living in resettlement homes presents new hardships for survivors of Yolanda, one of the world's most powerful and deadliest storms. Read more »

Apple offers $2.5B to address California housing crisis

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 04 10:57 PM

Apple said Monday it would commit $2.5 billion over the next two years to help address the shortage of affordable housing in California and reduce homelessness.   Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: October 31, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 31 11:09 PM

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Opposing relocation

George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 31 09:02 PM

Residents of Katuparan housing project in Vitas, Tondo light candles during a protest opposing their impending relocation on Thursday. Read more »

Facebook devotes $1 billion to affordable housing in US

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 23 04:51 AM

SAN FRANCISCO, United States—Facebook said Tuesday it was devoting $1 billion during the coming decade in affordable housing, most of it in its home state of California. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: October 17, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 18 01:32 AM

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Overlooking

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 17 06:52 PM

A child living in an informal settlers community in Agham Road, Quezon City occupies his time by playing with a plastic bag on Thursday as a high-rise condominium looms overhead. Read more »

Crowded Hong Kong goes underground to overcome land crunch

Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Oct 17 08:47 AM

From Singapore to sub-Saharan Africa, the world's cities are fast running out of space to house their swelling populations. Read more »