QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 135)
It aims to improve coordination and centralized control over the implementation of housing and urban development programs to address urban problems such as squatting, slums, substandard housing, and acute housing shortages.
The Presidential Coordinating Committee on Housing and Urban Development (PCCHUP).
It states that the PCCHUP shall assume the sole power and responsibility of coordinating the implementation of housing and urban development programs and projects.
It describes existing efforts as being carried out by many agencies with little coordination and centralized control.
All such agencies are directed to actively participate and cooperate in the implementation of the Government’s housing and urban development program.
There shall be a Technical Staff, headed by an Action Officer, to provide technical support to the Committee.
It provides for a Technical Staff headed by an Action Officer to support the Committee.
It revokes Executive Order No. 67 (s. 1964), Executive Order No. 68 (s. 1964), Administrative Order No. 8 (s. 1966), and other executive/administrative orders or parts thereof that are inconsistent with the new order.
It promotes centralized coordination by giving a designated committee (PCCHUP) “sole power and responsibility” to coordinate housing and urban development efforts.
It is dated June 10, 1968, and it was done in the City of Manila.
Squatting, slums, substandard housing, and acute housing shortages.
The problem of fragmented and uncoordinated implementation by multiple agencies, resulting in less effective responses to housing and squatting issues.
It states there is an “urgent need” to bring about better coordination and control to cope with the acute housing shortage and squatter problem.