President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s flagship Expanded Pambansang Pabahay para sa Pilipino (4PH) program is bringing back a housing project on the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) campus for the first time in more than four decades.

Officials of the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development and UP Los Baños on Thursday launched the Expanded 4PH–UPLB Rental Housing Project.

UPLB chancellor Jose Camacho Jr. said the last housing project inside the campus was implemented in the 1980s during the administration of former President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and benefited faculty members.

Camacho said the rental housing project progressed swiftly, with construction launched two months after initial discussions last December.

Housing Secretary Jose Ramon Aliling said the expanded 4PH program continues to be accelerated to benefit more Filipino families, adding that rental housing has become a key component of the initiative.

The project, the fifth rental housing development under the expanded 4PH program, will initially consist of two five-story buildings in Paciano Rizal, Bay, Laguna, located along a main road near the UP Rural High School campus.

About 800 residents of Los Baños are expected to benefit, including low-income UP employees and informal settler families.

Aliling assured UP officials of continued government support for campus housing initiatives.