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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1924
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1924 -
IMPLEMENTING AN EXPANDED AND ACCELERATED URBAN LAND REFORM AND SOCIAL
HOUSING PROGRAM AND INCREASING THE CAPITALIZATION OF THE NATIONAL
HOUSING AUTHORITY TO P5 BILLION
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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. 686, 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 provision of social housing program as provided in the
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WHEREAS, there is a need to expand and accelerate these programs not
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WHEREAS, the Ministry of Human Settlements is charged with the task of
formulating a National Shelter Program which defines the housing
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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:cralaw:red
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
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a. Improvement or upgrading of identified slums and
other depressed communities to make them acceptable human habitats.
b. 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
in-migration of marginal and low-income families.
c. Relocation and resettlement of families in
pursuance of the campaign for the prevention and control of squatting.
d. Land acquisition in support of the above-mentioned
components of the Program.
e. Comprehensive Livelihood Program as an integral
component of the Kilusang Kabuhayan at Kaunlaran [KKK] and the Sariling
Sikap Program.
Section 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. 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 No. 555 and 557 and as amended
by Letters 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. 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. 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.
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