Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 184)
The main purpose of Executive Order No. 184 is to create Socialized Housing One-Stop Processing Centers (SHOPCs) in all administrative regions of the country to facilitate the processing and issuance of permits, clearances, certifications, and licenses necessary for implementing socialized housing projects, thereby streamlining procedures and supporting private sector participation.
The SHOPCs shall be manned by representatives from HUDCC, HLURB, DAR, DENR-LMB, DA, and DILG.
SHOPCs have the power to issue locational clearances, conversion orders or certificates of exemption from CARP coverage, development permits, licenses to sell, environmental clearance certificates when required, determine disturbance compensation for affected tenant-farmers/farmworkers, simplify and ensure processing within 90 days, and call upon other agencies for support.
The law mandates that the processing, approval, and issuance of permits, clearances, certifications, and licenses for socialized housing projects must be completed within 90 days from submission of all requirements to hasten project implementation.
The applicant developer/proponent must file a sworn Undertaking that the project shall be completed within one year from issuance of permits for projects under five hectares, or at a rate of at least five hectares per year for projects covering five hectares or more.
Penalties include cancellation or suspension of permits, permanent or limited suspension from engaging in real estate development or housing projects, and reversion of the land to its original agricultural status.
CREBA or similar NGOs may set up desks within SHOPCs to provide private sector monitoring, assist in coordination between the desks and other government agencies, and provide manpower support to facilitate processing and approvals.
The HLURB Desk accepts applications, inspects project sites, recommends land conversion to DAR, evaluates applications and plans, issues locational clearances and licenses to sell, certificates that sites are not environmentally critical areas (subject to conditions), and other related duties.
Agencies must submit zoning plans, land-use maps, master lists and maps of irrigated lands, environmentally critical areas, lands under CARP, and urban and urbanizable area maps, among other documents, within 30 days of the order and regularly thereafter.