MARLEN V. RONQUILLO
The old People’s Homesite and Housing Corp. (PHHC), the National Government Center (NGC) and the University of the Philippines (UP) owned at least 2,000 hectares of prime land until the 1960s in what is now the heart of Quezon City. Of that grand total, the old PHHC developed eight housing projects, from Project One to Project Eight, in the 1950s and the 1960s. I was born in the early ‘50s, but I knew the PHHC by heart. The late Angel “Star” Macapagal, the brother of the late former president Diosdado Macapagal, ran the PHHC. And his executive assistants at the PHHC were mostly from my town of Lubao.