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NEW HOUSES. The United Nations Human Settlements Programme will end its Rebuilding Marawi Project in Marawi City on May 30, 2022 with 1,000 permanent houses for families displaced during the five-month siege in 2017. The agency known as UN-Habitat received funding from the Japanese government. (PNA photo by Divina M. Suson) MARAWI CITY - For a 38-year-old mother of nine, life five years after the siege here is way better than before they were displaced because of the five-month battle between the government and ISIS-linked extremists. Anisah Bariga, her husband, and their children aged between 17 to 5 months old occupy one of the 109 permanent housing units in Hadiya Village in Barangay Dulay West. They transferred here in February last year, a shelter she calls "our own", vacating the house of a kind relative some four kilometers away from Dulay West. When they fled during the siege, they first stayed for six months in a school that served as evacuation center in Saguiaran, ....