Low Cost Housing (disambiguation)

• Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council

  Also: HUDCC, Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council of the Philippines

  The Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) was the umbrella agency that coordinated the Philippine government's shelter and urban development bodies, including the National…

• Multi-generational Housing

• National Housing Authority (NHA)

• Economic Housing

  Also: Economic Housing, Economic Housing (Philippines), Affordable Housing

  Economic Housing, in the Philippines, is a category of residential housing targeted at average-income earners, defined by a specific price ceiling and relaxed construction standards…

• RA 7279 (Urban Development and Housing Act)

  Also: RA 7279, Urban Development and Housing Act, Lina Law

  RA 7279 (Urban Development and Housing Act), officially known as the Urban Development and Housing Act of 1992 (Republic Act No. 7279), is the primary…

• Socialized Housing

  Also: Socialized Housing, Socialized Housing (Philippines), Low-Cost Housing

  Socialized Housing is a housing program in the Philippines established under Republic Act No. 7279 (UDHA) targeting underprivileged and homeless citizens. Regulated by the Department…

• Economic Housing Philippines

  Also: Low-cost housing (informal but commonly used), Mass housing (overlapping but broader), Affordability tier 2 (between socialized and open-market)

  Economic housing in the Philippines refers to a statutory housing category created by Batas Pambansa Blg. 220 (approved March 25, 1982), which authorized the Ministry…

• Socialized Housing Philippines

  Also: Low-cost housing, Affordable housing (broader, often overlapping), Mass housing

  Socialized housing in the Philippines refers to housing programs and projects legally defined under Section 3(t) of Republic Act No. 7279 (the Urban Development and…

• Bungalow

  Also: Single-storey house, One-storey house, Single-level house

  A bungalow is a single-storey residential structure, typically detached, with all primary living spaces (bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen, living room) on the ground floor. In Philippine…

• Republic Act No. 311

  Also: RA 311 — the standard short citation form, An Act Abolishing the People's Court and the Office of Special Prosecutors — the descriptive short title drawn from the long title's opening clause, The 1948 People's Court abolition law — the styling in postwar historiography

  Republic Act No. 311, approved on June 19, 1948, is the statute conventionally cited by its long title, "An Act Abolishing the People's Court and…

• Inflation

  Inflation is "an increase in the average price of goods and services in terms of money" — a rise in the general price level that…

• Typhoon Ruby (2014)

  Typhoon Ruby, internationally designated Typhoon Hagupit (2014), was a strong typhoon that struck Eastern Samar in December 2014, barely a year after Typhoon Yolanda devastated…

• Zuellig Pharma

  Also: Zuellig Pharma Corporation, F. E. Zuellig, Inc.

  Zuellig Pharma is a leading integrated healthcare-solutions company serving Asia, established in the Philippines in 1922, which grew from a Swiss family trading house in…

• Typhoon Rai

  Also: Typhoon Odette (PAGASA local name), Super Typhoon Rai, Typhoon 28W (Joint Typhoon Warning Center designation)

  Typhoon Rai, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Odette, was an extremely powerful tropical cyclone that struck the Philippines in December 2021. It reached the…

• Marikina

  Also: Marikina, Marikina City, City of Marikina

  Marikina, officially the City of Marikina, is a highly urbanized city in the eastern sub-region of Metro Manila, Philippines. Renowned as the Shoe Capital of…

• Bureau of Public Works

  Also: BPW, Insular Bureau of Public Works, Bureau of Public Works of the Philippine Islands

  The Bureau of Public Works was the infrastructure agency of the American colonial Insular Government of the Philippine Islands — created by Section 13 of…

• Ministry of Human Settlements

  Also: MHS — the standard abbreviation, Department of Human Settlements (DHS) — the original designation in PD 1396, before PD 1397 converted departments into ministries, Ministry of Human Settlements of the Philippines — the disambiguating form used to distinguish it from same-named offices elsewhere

  The Ministry of Human Settlements (MHS) was the cabinet-level ministry of the Philippine New Society era that held the state's housing, land-use, environmental and metropolitan-development…

• Maharlika Investment Corporation

  Also: MIC — the standard initialism, Maharlika Investment Corp. — common news styling

  The Maharlika Investment Corporation (MIC) is the government-owned and controlled corporation created by Republic Act No. 11954, the Maharlika Investment Fund Act of 2023, approved…

• SM Mall of Asia

  Also: MOA — the universal short form, used by SM itself in brandings from MOA Eye to MOA Sky, The Mall of Asia — the styling common in early coverage, including the mall's own opening-era materials, SM MOA — the chain-brand composite used in SM Prime reporting

  SM Mall of Asia (MOA) is the flagship shopping mall of SM Prime Holdings in Bay City, Pasay — a reclaimed waterfront district along Manila…

• Flor Contemplacion

  Also: Flor Ramos Contemplacion — full name

  Flor Ramos Contemplacion (January 7, 1953 – March 17, 1995) was a Filipina domestic worker from San Pablo, Laguna, convicted in Singapore of the murders…

• Manila Central Post Office

  Also: The Manila Post Office — the common short form, The Central Post Office — PHLPost's own styling for its traditional headquarters, The Post Office — the building's standing name in Manila usage, functioning as a place name in its own right

  The Manila Central Post Office is the neoclassical headquarters building of the Philippine postal service, standing on Liwasang Bonifacio (Magallanes Drive), Ermita, Manila, on the…

• Typhoon

  Also: Bagyo (Filipino generic term for tropical cyclone), Hurricane (equivalent Atlantic and Northeast Pacific term), Tropical cyclone (generic World Meteorological Organization term)

  A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops in the Northwestern Pacific basin — the region between 100°E and 180° longitude in the Northern…

• Typhoon Haiyan

  Also: Yolanda, Typhoon Yolanda, Super Typhoon Yolanda

  Typhoon Haiyan, known in the Philippines by its local name Yolanda, was one of the most intense tropical cyclones ever recorded and the deadliest typhoon…

• BRP Sierra Madre

  Also: USS LST-821 (original United States Navy name), USS Harnett County (LST-821/AGP-821) (United States Navy, 1955–1970), RVNS My Tho (HQ-800) (Republic of Vietnam Navy, 1970–1975)

  BRP Sierra Madre (LT-57) is a Philippine Navy tank landing ship, laid down in 1944 as the United States Navy's USS LST-821 and later renamed…

• Build Better More Program

  Also: BBM, Build Better More (BBM) Program — official program styling, The Infrastructure Flagship Projects (IFP) portfolio — the NEDA-designated project list through which the program is administered

  The Build Better More Program (BBM) is the infrastructure program of the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (2022–2028), which superseded the Build! Build! Build!…

• Manggahan Floodway

  Also: The Floodway (common local shorthand), Marikina River diversion channel (descriptive term)

  The Manggahan Floodway is a flood control channel in Metro Manila, Philippines, built in 1986 at a cost of about 1.1 billion pesos. Roughly 10…

• Dingras

  Dingras is a landlocked municipality in Ilocos Norte, Philippines, occupying one of the widest inland plains of the province. Long called the rice granary of…

• Overseas Filipino Worker

  Also: Overseas Filipino Workers, OFWs, OFW

  An Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) is a Filipino engaged, to be engaged, or previously engaged in remunerated work in a country where he or she…

• University of Santo Tomas

  Also: UST — the standard abbreviation in Philippine education reporting, Unibersidad ng Santo Tomás — the Filipino name of the university, The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines — the full honorific styling conferred across 1785, 1902, and 1947

  The University of Santo Tomas (abbreviation UST; Filipino Unibersidad ng Santo Tomás) is a private Catholic research university in Sampaloc, Manila, run by the Order…

• Government Service Insurance System

  Also: GSIS, Paseguruhan ng mga Naglilingkod sa Pamahalaan, Government Service Insurance System of the Philippines

  The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) is the Philippine government's social insurance institution for public-sector employees — a government-owned and controlled corporation created on November…

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