Salient points of RA 11201

Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:14 AM February 23, 2019

President Duterte signed on Feb. 14 Republic Act No. 11201, which creates the
Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) by merging the
Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) and the Housing
and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB). It repealed Executive Orders No. 90 s.
1986 and No. 648 s. 1981.

The new department is now “the primary national government entity responsible for the
management of housing, human settlement and urban development.”
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The law defines human settlements to “comprise of a) physical components of shelter

and infrastructure; and b) services to which the physical elements provide support, such
as community services which include education, health, culture, welfare, recreation and
nutrition.”

Urban development meanwhile “refers to the process of occupation and use of land or
space for activities such as residential, industrial, commercial and the like or their
combinations, necessary to carry out the functions of urban living.”

Section 4 further states: “It shall be the sole and main planning and policy-making,
regulatory, program coordination and performance monitoring entity for all housing,
human settlement and urban development concerns, primarily focusing on the access to
and affordability of basic needs.”

DHSUD shall have powers and functions on four key areas: policy development,
coordination, monitoring and evaluation; environmental land use and urban planning
and development; housing and real estate regulation; and homeowners association and
community development.
Specified in its policy development function is the formulation of a national housing
and urban development policies, strategies and standards; housing finance and
production policies; housing policies and programs; and a framework for resilient
housing and human settlements.

The HLURB is to be reconstituted into an adjudicatory body called Human Settlements

Adjudication Commission (HSAC) and shall be attached to the Department for policy,
planning and program coordination only.

The law also creates a National Human Settlements Board which shall exercise the
powers and functions related to policy and program development of the department’s
attached agencies.

The Department shall have four attached corporations namely the National Housing
Authority (NHA), National Home Mortgage Finance Corp. (NHMFC), Home
Development Mutual Fund (HDMF) and Social Housing Finance Corp. (SHFC).

The Department is also tasked to establish Housing One-Stop Processing Centers to

centralize the processing of housing-related permits, clearances and licenses.
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The Department is to identify government lands suitable for housing and rural
development within 180 days from the effectivity of the law. This is to be done jointly
with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Department of
Agrarian Reform (DAR), Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of Interior and
Local Government (DILG) and Land Registration Authority (LRA).

The Act shall take effect 15 days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in any
newspaper of general circulation.

Full text can be read at the Official Gazette Website at

www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2019/02/14/republic-act-no-11211/
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