UPEHCO is non-profit, non-governmental organization registered with the Cooperative Development Authority in 1990. The cooperative has a membership base of approximately 2,000 as of January this year, 90% of whom are PAG-IBIG members and majority are employed with the University of the Philippines.
Some of the members come from the UP's School of Urban and regional Planning who have beenrequested to assest in the preapation of the site development plans. member from the College of Architecture have been tapped to draw the housing designs while those from the Community Planning, development and Maintenance Office help in the construction of the housing units. finaly memebers from the College of Law have provided legal assistance to the cooperative.
Indeed, the concept of "bayanihan" has been well mobilized by the cooperative to achieve its purpose.
