MANILA, Philippines?The National Housing Authority (NHA) celebrates today 35 years of providing low-cost housing to homeless low-income Filipinos ??still committed to make the right to shelter a reality for all Filipinos,? according to NHA general manager Federico Laxa.

Created under PD 757 by then President Ferdinand Marcos, NHA today covers the whole archipelago with projects in all 81 provinces, 136 cities, and 1,495 municipalities.

?We remain committed and dedicated to our mandate to make the right to shelter a reality for all Filipinos, especially the poorest and the neediest among us,? Laxa said in a press statement on the eve of the NHA anniversary.

Since its creation in 1975, NHA has produced housing units for resettlement of families in danger areas, government infrastructure projects and victims of calamities.

In 2009, it concluded its most ambitious project, the Northrail and Southrail relocation and resettlement of 92,000 families residing along the Philippine National Railways right of way from Mabalacat, Pampanga to Cabuyao, Laguna within five years.

Also last year, the NHA developed resettlement sites for 10,212 families affected by typhoons ??Ondoy? and ??Pepeng? under the reconstruction program; completed the relocation and resettlement of 3,347 censused families affected by the development of the vital road infrastructure that provides east and west access to mainline NLEX, the NLEX-C5 Northern Link Project, Phase 2, Segment 8.1; and provided assistance to some 30,000 families rendered homeless by typhoon Reming under the Bicol Calamity Assistance and Rehabilitation Efforts (CARE).

The NHA said it also generated housing units from its regular programs consisting of resettlement, slum upgrading, sites and services, core housing, medium rise housing and other housing assistance programs.