QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 357)
Executive Order No. 357 is issued pursuant to the President’s powers vested by law and is anchored on the framework established by Executive Order No. 90 dated December 17, 1986. EO 90 identified essential agencies for the National Shelter Program, defined mandates, created the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC), and rationalized funding and lending mechanisms; EO 357 strengthens the coordinating mechanism by further delegating administrative supervision and specifying duties.
The key housing agencies are: (1) National Housing Authority (NHA), (2) National Home Mortgage Finance Corporation (NHMFC), (3) Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB), and (4) Home Insurance and Guaranty Corporation (HIGC).
The support agencies are the Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMF, formerly Pag-IBIG Fund) and the Social Security System (SSS), and the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS).
Its main function is to coordinate the activities of the government housing agencies to ensure accomplishment of the National Shelter Program.
EO 357 states that the Chairman of the HUDCC is the ex-officio Chairman of the governing boards of the key housing agencies, pursuant to Section 6 of EO 90.
EO 357 recognizes that the President exercises direct control and supervision over coordinating, key, and support agencies because the President is the department head. It also cites jurisprudence (Lacson-Magallanes Co., Inc. vs. Pano) recognizing that the President may delegate certain presidential powers to presidential subordinates.
EO 357 delegates overall administrative supervision over the key housing agencies (NHA, NHMFC, HLURB, and HIGC) to the HUDCC, acting as the President’s arm on the National Shelter Program, but still subject to the President’s direct control and supervision.
No. While HUDCC is delegated overall administrative supervision, it remains subject to the President’s direct control and supervision. Thus, HUDCC does not become fully independent; presidential oversight remains.
(1) HUDCC must exercise administrative supervision over the key housing agencies; and (2) HUDCC must be responsible for meeting targets and objectives for the housing sector and, together with the key and support agencies, achieving these objectives and targets.
The purpose is to ensure full coordination and integration. HUDCC must review these agencies and, through their respective governing boards, adopt necessary and proper measures to align activities.
It directs HUDCC to decentralize its operations and those of the key housing agencies by integrating regional activities, aiming at an equitable regional distribution of housing benefits.
HUDCC is directed to enlist DBM’s assistance to secure continuing funding support for the National Shelter Program and to identify and submit projects for funding under the Philippine Assistance Program through the proper implementing agency.
HUDCC is responsible for meeting housing sector targets and objectives, and it must work together with both key and support housing agencies to achieve these goals.
It indicates that HUDCC performs coordinating and supervisory functions on behalf of the President, serving as the operational extension of the President’s authority over the National Shelter Program, while remaining under presidential control.
HUDCC cannot directly unilaterally impose changes on agency governing boards; instead, it must coordinate and recommend or cause adoption through the governing boards of each key housing agency, ensuring proper governance and statutory board authority.
EO 357 states it shall take effect immediately. Practically, the organizational and supervisory realignment and coordination tasks must be pursued without waiting for a later date, subject to existing laws and board procedures.
It supports the legal concept that the President may delegate certain presidential powers to presidential subordinates, which EO 357 applies to the delegation of administrative supervision to HUDCC.