This document provides guidelines for local governments to inventory lands and identify suitable sites for socialized housing. It mandates that local governments conduct an inventory of all lands within their jurisdiction, including vacant residential lands, government-owned lands, abandoned agricultural lands, and other suitable but idle lands. It defines key terms like socialized housing, idle lands, marginal lands, and resettlement areas. It also outlines which agencies are responsible for the inventory and site identification process, with local governments taking the lead role and coordinating with national housing agencies.
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HUDCC Guidelines for Identification of Lots and Sites for Socialized Housing
This document provides guidelines for local governments to inventory lands and identify suitable sites for socialized housing. It mandates that local governments conduct an inventory of all lands within their jurisdiction, including vacant residential lands, government-owned lands, abandoned agricultural lands, and other suitable but idle lands. It defines key terms like socialized housing, idle lands, marginal lands, and resettlement areas. It also outlines which agencies are responsible for the inventory and site identification process, with local governments taking the lead role and coordinating with national housing agencies.
This document provides guidelines for local governments to inventory lands and identify suitable sites for socialized housing. It mandates that local governments conduct an inventory of all lands within their jurisdiction, including vacant residential lands, government-owned lands, abandoned agricultural lands, and other suitable but idle lands. It defines key terms like socialized housing, idle lands, marginal lands, and resettlement areas. It also outlines which agencies are responsible for the inventory and site identification process, with local governments taking the lead role and coordinating with national housing agencies.
GUIDELINES FOR THE INVENTORY AND identification of suitable sites for socialized
IDENTIFICATION housing in urban and urbanizable areas.
OF LANDS AND SITES FOR SOCIALIZED 3.1 The following lands shall be covered by HOUSING the inventory of all lands and detailed SECTION 1. MANDATE. - These guidelines data/information thereon shall be are enacted pursuant to Section 40 of RA gathered: 7279 which provides, inter alia, that Housing a. all undeveloped and vacant lands and Urban Development Coordinating zoned for residential purposes as Council through the key housing agencies, delineated in the Zoning Ordinance of shall provide local government units with the Local Government Units, duly necessary support such as formulation of approved by the Housing and Land standards and guidelines as well as Use Regulatory Board; technical b. government-owned lands, whether assistance in the preparation of land use owned by the national government or plans, in relation to Section 4.d of E.O. 90 any of its subdivisions, Series of 1992 which designated the Board instrumentalities, or agencies as the sole regulatory body for housing and including, government-owned or land development. controlled corporations and their These guidelines are formulated in the subsidiaries; furtherance of the provisions of the same c. unregistered or abandoned agricultural Act and idle lands including idle which provides respectively: "Within one (1) government lands; year from the effectivity of the Act, all city d. other lands and municipal governments shall conduct an d.1 lands located outside the zoned inventory of all lands and improvements built-up areas but suitable for thereon within their respective localities"; socialized housing, as per and suitability criteria contained in "after the inventory of all lands the local these guidelines; government units in coordination with the d.2 squatter settlement, including National Housing Authority (NHA), Housing Areas for Priority Development and Land Use regulatory Board (HLRB) (APD), Zonal Improvement Land Program sites (ZIP) and Slum Management Bureau (LMB), and National Improvement and Resettlement Mapping and Resource Information Program (SIR) sites; Authority d.3 marginal agricultural lands which (NAMRIA). shall identify lands for socialized comply with the conversion housing and resettlement areas for the criteria of DAR; immediate and future needs of d.4 government-owned lands which underprivileged and homeless in the urban have not been used for the areas, taking into consideration the degree purpose for which they have of been reserved or set aside for availability of basic services and facilities, the past ten (10) years from the their economic opportunities, and the actual effectivity of the Act and number of registered beneficiaries". identified as suitable for The inventory of lands and subsequent socialized housing identification of sites for socialized housing 3.2 The following lands shall be indicated on shall serve as inputs in the formulation of the the National Urban Development Framework as map, as cited in Section 6.1 although are contained in Section 6 of this Act. exempted from the coverage of the law: SECTION 2. OBJECTIVES. - These guidelines a. Those included in the coverage of are intended to provide guidance and Republic Act assistance to the Local Government Units No. 6657 otherwise known as (LGUs) in the implementation of Sections 7 Comprehensive and 8 of R.A. 7279. Agrarian Reform Law; SECTION 3. SCOPE. - These guidelines shall b. Those actually used for national defense cover the inventory of all lands and the and security of the State; defined has been made by the government c. Those used, reserved or otherwise set including: 1) patrimonial properties of the aside for state; 2) public properties; and 3) properties government offices, facilities and other foreclosed by the government financing installations, whether owned by the National institutions (GFIs), government owned and Government, its agencies and controlled corporations (GOCCs), as instrumentalities, including certified governmentowned by the city. municipal and provincial or controlled corporations, or by the assessor. local government units: Provided, however. Improvements refer to all types of buildings that the lands herein mentioned, or portions and residential units, wall, fences, structures thereof, which have not been used for the or constructions of all kinds of a fixed purpose for which they have been reserved character or which adhered to the soil but or shall not include trees, plants and growing set aside for the past ten (10) years from the fruits, and other fixtures that are mere effectivity of the Act. shall be covered by the superimpositions on the land. and the value Act; of d. Those used or set aside for parks, the improvements shall not be less than fifty reserves for percent (50%) of the assessed value of the flora and fauna, forests and watersheds, and property. other areas necessary to maintain ecological 4.4 Government lands refers to parcels of balance or environmental protection, as lands determined and certified by the proper which titles are held by national government government agency; and entities or any of its subdivisions, e. Those actually used for religious, instrumentalities, or agencies, including charitable, or government-owned or controlled corporation educational purposes. cultural and historical and their subsidiaries and lands placed sites, hospitals and health centers, and under the jurisdiction of the above entities by cerneteries or memorial parks. virtue of proclamations signed by the SECTION 4. DEFINITION OF TERMS. As President. Government lands also include used rights-of-way or road titles. herein the following terms and phrases shall 4.5 Marginal lands refers to land which are have not the following meaning/definitions: effective for crop production due to 4.1 Areas for Priority Development (APD) constrainsts such as topography of the area refers to and poor yields. those areas declared as such under existing 4.6 Resettlement areas refer to areas statutes and pertinent executive issuances. identified 4.2 Blighted lands refer to the areas where by the appropriate national agency or by the the local government unit with respect to areas structures are dilapidated, obsolete and within its jurisdiction, which shall be used for unsanitary, tending to depreciate the value the relocation of the underprivileged and of homeless citizens. the land and prevent normal development 4.7 Slum Improvement and Resettlement and Program (SIR) refers to the program of the use of the area. National Housing Authority of 4.3 Idle lands refer to non-agricultural lands upgrading and improving blighted squatter in areas outside of Metro Manila pursuant to urban and urbanizable areas on which no existing statutes and pertinent executive improvements, as herein defined, have been issuances. made by the owner, as certified by the city. 4.8 Socialized housing refers to housing municipal or provincial assessor. programs and projects covering houses Idle government lands refers to: and lots or homelots only undertaken by nonagricultural the Government or the private sector for lands in urban and urbanizable the underprivileged and homeless areas on which no improvement as herein citizens which shall include sites and services development, long-term following agencies shall be involved in the financing, liberalized terms on interest inventory payments, and such other benefits in and site identification: accordance with the provisions of this 5.1 The Local Government Units (LGUs) Act. shall 4.9 Underprivileged and homeless citizens be responsible for the conduct of inventory refer to the beneficiaries of this Act and and identification of sites for socialized to individuals or families residing in urban housing. and urbanizable areas whose income or 5.2 The Housing and Land Use Regulatory combined household income falls within Board (HLRB) shall prepare guidelines for the poverty threshold as defined by the the inventory and identification of sites for National Economic and Development socialized housing and provide training Authority and who do not own housing and technical assistance in the conduct of facilities. This shall include those who live inventory. It shall also provide relevant in makeshift dwelling units and do not information on land use and zoning and enjoy security of tenure. assist in the preparation of Land Use Plans 4.10. Unregistered or abandoned lands refer incorporating the identified sites for to lands in urban and urbanizable areas socialized housing. which are not registered with the 5.3 The National Mapping and Resource Register of Deeds or with the city or Information Authority (NAMRIA) shall municipal assessor's office concerned, provide base maps, aerial photographs or which are uninhabited by the owner and other cartographic materials needed and have not been developed or for the inventory. devoted for any useful purposes, or 5.4 The Land Management Bureau (LMB) appears unutilized for a period of three shall (3) consecutive years immediately prior furnish the LGUs with cadastral map, to the issuance and receipt or inventory of government-owned lands and publication of notice of acquisition by the other relevant data. Government as provided under the Act. 5.5 The National Housing Authority (NHA) It does not include land which have shall been abandoned by reason of force make available existing guidelines and majeure or any other fortuitous event; criteria on the identification of sites for Provided That prior to such event, such socialized housing, accept and act as land was previously used for some repository (of deeds, TCT's. plans, etc.) of useful or economic purposes. government-owned lands found suitable 4.11 Urban areas refer to all cities for the above stated purpose, and assist regardless the concerned LGUs in the of their population density and to implementation of appropriate housing municipalities with a population density programs arising from the inventory of at least five hundred (500) persons per gathered on socialized housing projects. square kilometer. 5.6 Other agencies not identified in Sections 4.12 Urbanizable areas refer to sites and 7 lands which, considering present and 8 but which can provide relevant characteristics and prevailing information conditions, display marked and great and data requirement are as follows: potential of becoming urban areas a. Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) shall within the period of five (5) years. provide data on land valuation and taxation. 4.13 Zonal Improvement Program (ZIP) b. Department of Agriculture (DA)/Bureau of refers Soils and Water Management (BSWM) to the program of the National Housing shall provide data on Network of Protected Authority of upgrading and improving Agricultural Areas. blighted squatter areas within the cities c. Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and municipalities of Metro Manila shall pursuant to existing statutes and provide data on lands covered by the pertinent executive issuances. Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program SECTION 5. RESPONSIBLE AGENCIES. - The (CARP). d. Department of Environment and Natural 6.2 Documentation Resources (DENR)/Environmental The aforementioned inventory shall be Management Bureau (EMB) shall provide embodied data on environmentally critical areas. in a report which shall include e. Department of Transportation and among others: Communication a. Maps shall provide data on transportation a.1 A base map drawn to a convenient and communication services. scale wherein the lands covered under f. National Statistics Office (NSO) shall Section 3 (Scope) of these provide Guidelines shall be plotted. data on population and other relevant data. a.2 Map showing the lands suitable for g. National Power Corporation (NPC), socialized housing as identified by Manila the LGUs based on the Suitability Electric Company (MERALCO), National Criteria enumerated in 6.3 of these Electrification Administration (NEA) shall Guidelines. provide data on power. a.3 Other maps showing the assessed/ h. Manila Waterworks and Sewerage market value, actual land use, zoning System classification and basic services. (MWSS) and Local Waterworks and b. Tabular forms Utilities Administration (LWUA) shall An inventory/tabular form which shall provide data on water. include but not be limited to the following i. Department of Public Works and Highways information: (DPWH) shall provide data on roads and b.1 inventory of individual property indicating other relevant data. relevant information (Refer to j. City/Municipal Assessor's Office shall Annex A - Inventory Form) provide tax map and listing of all real b.2 listing of all properties inventoried properties with their corresponding market indicating relevant information (Refer to values and/or assessed values located in Annex B - Inventory of Lands) their respective city/municipality. b.3 summary of lands as identified in SECTION 6. GENERAL GUIDELINES AND Section METHODOLOGY. - The LGUs shall 3 (Scope) hereof and corresponding area undertake an in hectares (Refer to Annex C - Summary in-ventory of all lands to determine current of Inventory). This form shall be and submitted to the Housing and Urban actual land uses, availability of basic Devleopment Coordinating Council services (HUDCC) for planning purposes. and such other information that are needed c. Other pertinent documents to 6.3 Site Selection Criteria establish the suitability of sites for socialized The following criteria shall be used to housing. The LGUs are not limited to the evaluate use of the suitability of sites for socialized housing: this methodology but may utilize other a. To the extent feasible, socialized housing available and resettlement projects shall be located methodologies as well. in new areas where employment 6.1 Inventory of Lands opportunities are available: In the conduct of inventory, any or a b. Priority shall be given to areas where combination basic of the following techniques Ynay be services and facilites are already existing or used: where these can be introduced within a a. Ocular Inspection b. Aerial very short time; Photo Interpretation c. Transportation cost to work places and d. Data sourcing from tax maps. cadastral other maps, existing land use maps and other services should be affordable considering thematic Maps that the target beneficiaries are the e. Interview with local residents who have homeless and underprivileged; sufficient local knowledge. d. The site shall not require excessive lands which have not been used for the levelling, purpose for which they have been reserved cutting and filling. Sites requiring excessive for the past ten (10) years prior to the engineering works shall be avoided. effectivity of R.A. 7279 and which have been Likewise, sites on steep slopes and/or on identified as suitable for socialized housing weak soil foundation shall not be shall be transferred to NHA, subject to considered; Presidential approval. e. Environmentally critical areas as in fbod SECTION 7. ZONIFICATION OF THE prone or earthquake zones or areas near IDENTIFIED rivers and canals shall be avoided; SITES FOR SOCIALIZED HOUSING – The f. Compatibility with existing zones; identified g. Financial feasibility and viability where sites for socialized housing shall be located land in valuation offered is low; and residential zones, identified in the City’s or h. Tenurial status. Municipality's Zoning Ordinance duly 6.4 Priorities in the Selection of Sites for approved by the Socialized Housing Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board In selecting from among sites that equally (HLRB). meet However, for cities and municipalities where the criteria listed above, priorities shall be the established based on the following: identified sites are not the said residential a. those owned by the government or any of zones, the its location shall be confined within the priority subdivisions, instrumentalities or agencies, sites and including government-owned and those which conform with the suitability controlled corporations and their criteria fined subsidiaries; in Section 6.3 and 6.4 of these Guidelines. b. alienable of public domain; The identified sites shall be zoned as c. unregistered or abandoned and idle lands; SOCIALIZED d. those with the declared Areas for Priority HOUSING ZONES. Development (APD) and Zonal The current Zoning Ordinance of the LGUs Improvement Program (ZIP) Sites as there-fore validated by the National Housing Authority shall be reviewed and revised such that the and LGUs and Slum Improvement socialized and Resettlement (SIR) Program Sites housing, component shall be integrated. which have not yet been acquired; APPROVED this 25th day of November and 1992, e. Bagong Lipunan Improvement of sites Quezon City. and (Sgd.) ZORAYDA AMELIA C. ALONZO Services (BLISS) sites which have not yet Acting Chairman. HUDCC been acquired; and Ex-Officio Chairman f. privately-owned lands. (Sgd) BEINVENIDO E, MERELOS 6.5 Completion and Updating of inventor Asst. Secretary for Legal Service, DPWH The inventory shall be completed within one Ex-Officio Commissioner (1) year from the effectivity of these (Sgd) RAMON S. ESQUERRA guidelines. Updating shall be done every Undersecretary, DOJ three Ex-Officio Commissioner (3) years. (Sgd) VICTOR R. SUMULONG For planning purposes, the Housing and Undersecretary, DILG urban Development Coordinating Council Ex-Officio Commissioner (HUDCC) shall be furnished by each local (Sgd) ANICETO M. SOBREPENA government unit a copy of its inventory. Dep. Dir. Gen. NEDA 6.6 Turnover of Government Lands Ex-Officio Commissioner Public lands acquired by virtue of a Certified approved by the Housing and Land presidential Use proclamation and government-owned regulatory Board per Resolution No. R-521, series of 1992 adopted on 25 November 1992 (Sgd) FRANCISCO L. DAGNALAN Board Secretary