IMPLEMENTING AN EXPANDED AND ACCELERATED URBAN LAND REFORM AND SOCIAL HOUSING PROGRAM AND INCREASING THE CAPITALIZATION OF THE NATIONAL HOUSING AUTHORITY TO P5 BILLION

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 1924
• Sections: 6

Preamble

WHEREAS, the Constitution now mandates that the State "shall

undertake urban land reform and social housing program to provide deserving

landless, homeless and inadequately sheltered low-income resident citizens

reasonable opportunity to acquire land and decent housing";

WHEREAS, pursuant to Letters of Instructions Nos. 555 and

557 as amended by Letter of Instructions No. 68(3, the national government is

implementing through the National Housing Authority the Slum Improvement and

Resettlement (SIR) Program and the Sites and Services Projects Development

Program which respond to the housing and related needs of the urban poor and

implements the objectives of urban land reform and the provision of social

housing program as provided in the Constitution;

WHEREAS, there is a need to expand and accelerate these

programs not only in Metro Manila but in other urban centers of the country;

WHEREAS, the Ministry of Human Settlements h charged with

the task of formulating a National Shelter Program which defines the housing

objectives and targets of the national government;

WHEREAS, the National Housing Authority, an agency under the

Ministry of Human Settlements, is the designated lead agency in the

implementation of housing program for marginal and low-income families;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the

Philippines, do hereby order and decree as follows:

Section 1

SECTION 1. The National Housing Authority under the

supervision of the Ministry of Human Settlements, shall evolve and implement a

comprehensive national program to meet the housing and related needs of marginal

and low-income families in Metro Manila and other urban centers of the country.

Such a program shall include the following components, to wit:

Improvement or upgrading of identified slums and other depressed communities

to make them acceptable human habitats.

Development of sites and services projects for families displaced from

danger areas, from land needed by the government for its infrastructure program

and from slum improvement projects and to accommodate the normal increase in

households and immigratiion of marginal and low-income families.

Relocation and resettlement of families in pursuance of the campaign for the

prevention and control of squatting.

Land acquisition in support of the abovementioned components of the Program.

Comprehensive Livelihood Program as an integral component of the Kilusang

Kabuhayan at Kaunlaran (KKK) and the Sariling Sikap Program.

Section 2

SEC. 2. The Ministry of Human Settlements shall review the

Program as prepared by the National Housing Authority and include the same in

the' National Shelter Program.

Section 3

SEC. 3. To provide the National Housing Authority the

long-term capability to undertake the comprehensive national housing program for

marginal and low-income families, its authorized capitalization is hereby

increased to P5 billion. The National Housing Authority, with the participation

of other government agencies as prescribed under Letters of Instructions Nos.

555 and 557 and as amended by Letter of Instructions No. 686, shall implement

specific projects for marginal and low-income families in accordance with annual

budgets recommended by the Minister of Human Settlements and approved by the

President.

Section 4

SEC. 4. All provisions of laws, decrees, letters of

instructions, rules and regulations which are inconsistent with this Decree are

hereby repealed, modified or amended accordingly.

Section 5

SEC. 5. This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 6th day of May, in the year of Our Lord,

nineteen hundred and eighty-four.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President of the

Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.)JUAN C. LAZARO

Presidential Executive

Assistant