Laws

LAWS
RA 11201 – Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development Act
RA 10884 – Balanced Housing Development Program Amendments
RA 9904 – Magna Carta for Homeowners and Homeowners Association (2010)
RA 9553 – Rent Control Act of 2009
RA 9507 – Socialized and Low-Cost Housing Loan Restructuring of 2008
RA 9397 – Disposition of Lands for Socialized Housing (2007)
RA 9341 – Rent Control Act of 2005
RA 8501 – Housing Loan Condonation Act of 1998
RA 8437 – Rent Control Law of 1997
RA 8368 – Anti Squatting Law Repeal Act of 1997
RA 7835 – Comprehensive and Integrated Shelter Financing Act of 1994
RA 7279 – Urban Development and Housing Act of 1992
BP 220 – Economic and Socialized Housing (1982)
PD 1216 – Ammendments to Section 31 of PD 957 (1977)
PD 957 – Subdivision and Condominium buyer’s Protective Decree (1976)
EXECUTIVE ORDER
Executive Order 272 – Authorizing the Creation of the Social Housing Finance
Corporation and Directing the transfer of the Community Mortgage Program,
Abot-Kaya Pabahay Fund Program, and other social Housing Powers and
Functions of the National Home Mortgage Finance Corporation to the Social
Housing Finance Corporation (2004)
Executive Order 105 – Approving and Directing the Implementation of the
Program for “Provision of Group Home/Foster home for Neglected, Abandoned,
Abused, Detached and Poor Older Persons and Persons with Disabilities” (2002)
Executive Order 20 – Reaffirming Mass Housing as a Centerpiece Program in
the Poverty Alleviation efforts of the Government and further strengthening the
Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (2001)
Executive Order 258 – Prescribing Time Standards in the Issuance of Permits for
Housing Projects (2000)
Executive Order 45 – Prescribing Time Periods for Issuance of Housing Related
Certifications, Clearances and Permits, and Imposing Sanctions for Failure to
Observe the Same (2001)
Executive Order 159 – Declaring Mass Housing as Centerpiece Program of the
Estrada Administration and Constituting the Presidential Commission for Mass
Housing (1999)
Executive Order 170 – Establishing the Revolving Funds for Housing Projects of
Local Government Units (1999)
Executive Order 129 – Establishing an Institutional mechanism to Curtailment of
the Activities of the Professional Squatting Syndicates and Professional
Squatters and Intensifying the drive against them (1993)
Executive Order 72 – Providing for the Preparation and Implementation of
Comprehensive Land Use Plans of LOcal Government Units Pursuant to the
Local Government Code of 1991 and other Pertinent Laws (1993)
Executive Order 71 – Devolving the Powers of the Housing and Land use
Regulatory Board to approve Subdivision plans to Cities and Municipalities
pursuant to R.A. no. 7160, otherwise known as the Local Government Code of
1991 (1993)
Executive Order 357 – Strengthening the Existing Coordinating Mechanism of
the National Shelter Program of the Government Under Executive Order No. 90,
Dated December 17, 1986 (1989)
Executive Order 90 – Identifying the Government Agencies Essential for the
National shelter program and defineing their mandates, creating the Housing and
Urban Development Coordinating Council, Rationalizing funding sources and
lending mechanisms for home mortgages and for other purposes (1986)