UN housing agency builds 1,000 homes in Marawi

This photo taken on May 23, 2021 shows workers walking along a newly paved road past homes which were destroyed in 2017 when Islamic State-inspired Muslim militants laid siege to the southern Philippine city of Marawi, resulting in a five-month campaign that claimed more than 1,000 lives until government troops re-took control.

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MANILA, Philippines — A thousand houses have been turned over to internally displaced families affected by the Marawi siege, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) said Thursday.

The last 462 permanent houses were awarded on Thursday’s handover event, marking the end of UN-Habitat’s four-year engagement in the war-torn city.

Through the Japanese government’s $10-million funding support, the houses were built on land procured and developed by the Social Housing Finance Corporation and the National Housing Authority.

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