Title
NBP Land Declared for Housing and Development
Law
Proclamation No. 1159
Decision Date
Sep 8, 2006
Proclamation No. 1159 designates the New Bilibid Prison Reservation as a socialized housing site, aiming to decongest Metro Manila and provide housing for underprivileged citizens, with the government overseeing the development and implementation of a Master Development Plan for the site.

Q&A (PROCLAMATION NO. 1159)

The main purpose is to declare the New Bilibid Prison Reservation as a government and socialized housing site with mixed-use components and to provide for the disposition thereof to qualified beneficiaries and for other useful purposes.

Article XIII, Section 9 of the Philippine Constitution mandates the State to undertake a continuing program of urban land reform and housing to make available at affordable cost decent housing and basic services to underprivileged and homeless citizens.

An aggregate area of three hundred sixty six hectares and seven thousand square meters (366.7 hectares), more or less, is declared open for disposition and development.

The land is allocated as follows: 780,000 square meters for government housing, 220,000 square meters for mixed-income residential purposes, 440,000 square meters for institutional/public purposes, 1,470,000 square meters for mixed-use/commercial and residential purposes, 517,000 square meters for open space/parks, and 240,000 square meters for the Daang-Hari-SLEX Road Link Project.

The HUDCC, DENR, Office of the President, DOJ, Bureau of Corrections, City Government of Muntinlupa, National Housing Authority, and the Office of Lone Congressional District of Muntinlupa City.

The Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) acts as Chairman and the Department of Justice (DOJ) as Co-chairman.

The National Housing Authority (NHA) is the lead implementing agency or sponsor of all development subprojects within the NBP site.

Disposition of land may be undertaken through lawful and appropriate modalities including sale, lease, usufruct, or other variants in accordance with applicable laws.

The usufruct period is an initial period of fifty (50) years.

Usufructuary rights of beneficiaries shall not be transferable except in cases of hereditary succession or to a relative on the first degree of consanguinity.

The land allocation shall be revised and prorated accordingly based on the distribution percentages specified in the proclamation.

Yes, it supersedes all other proclamations regarding the NBP site, and inconsistent provisions are deemed repealed or modified.

The legal basis includes Article XIII, Section 9 and Article XII, Section 1 of the Constitution, which mandates urban land reform, social justice, agrarian reform, and industrialization promoting programs.


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