President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a bill seeking to consolidate all housing agencies into a new Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development.
Duterte approved Republic Act 11201 on February 14, a copy of which was released by Malacañang on Tuesday.
The law orders the consolidation of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) and the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) to create the new department.
The new department would be the sole and main planning and policy-making, regulatory, program coordination, and performance monitoring entity for all housing and urban development concerns, and would primarily be focused on the access to and affordability of decent, and secure shelter.
Under the law, the department would be composed of the Office of the Secretary, three undersecretaries and assistant secretaries each, and the Bureaus of Environmental, Land Use, and Urban Planning and Development; Housing and Real Estate Development Regulation; and Homeowners Association and Community Development.
The department will also have administrative supervision over the National Housing Authority, National Home Mortgage Finance Corporation, Home Development Mutual Fund and Social Housing Finance Corporation.
The measure also orders the creation of a National Human Settlements Board to address housing policies and plans, as well as the transfer of the adjudicatory function of the HLURB to the Human Settlements Adjudication Commission.
Government data showed that in 2018 alone, there was a need for more than two million housing units. The figure was projected to balloon to 6,571,387 by the end of 2022.
The law takes effect 15 days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in any newspaper of general circulation. — Virgil Lopez/RSJ, GMA News
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