QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 343)
It aims to strengthen the government machinery for coordinating the mass housing program by improving the effectiveness of the housing committee created under Executive Order No. 215 (1970) to hasten the national housing and resettlement program for the homeless.
Executive Order No. 343 amends Executive Order No. 215 dated March 7, 1970, which reorganized the Presidential Committee on Housing and Urban Resettlement.
The Secretary of Public Works and Communications is designated as the Executive Director of the Committee.
The Secretary of Public Works and Communications (as Executive Director) assumes the executive functions of the Committee, including those previously exercised by the Action Officer, who then becomes a Member of the Committee.
To coordinate and implement the policies enunciated and decisions made by the Committee.
By a Technical Staff and Secretariat under the Presidential Assistant on Housing and Resettlement Agency, which provides technical and secretarial services to the Committee.
It consists of representatives of the Committee Members and such additional technical personnel as may be selected by the Executive Director.
The People’s Homesite and Housing Corporation, the National Housing Corporation, the Social Security System, and the Government Service Insurance System.
It links the need for closer coordination and more effective committee machinery to fully carry out the general objectives of the national priority program on housing and resettlement.
It indicates that the President is acting pursuant to constitutionally and statutorily granted authority to issue executive orders; it serves as a jurisdictional/legal basis for the amendment.
It elevates the Secretary of Public Works and Communications as Executive Director with executive functions, while reallocating the prior Action Officer’s executive role by making that officer a regular member.
It assigns the Executive Director both administrative coordination and execution/implementation duties to translate the Committee’s decisions into operational actions.