Title
GSIS Land Declared Social Housing Site
Law
Executive Order No. 108
Decision Date
Jun 4, 2002
An executive order declares a portion of GSIS property in Manila as a social housing site, aiming to provide land to landless Filipinos and regularize land tenurial of informal settlers, with an executive committee overseeing the disposition, qualification of beneficiaries, pricing, and payment scheme.

Policy and declared purpose

  • Section 1(a) declares that the GSIS property is needed to address the requirement of informal settlers to acquire home ownership and shelter security.
  • Executive Order No. 108 directs disposition to qualified occupants and beneficiaries to support the Administration’s priority concern of providing lands to deserving landless and homeless Filipinos.
  • Executive Order No. 108 is anchored on the policy of regularizing land tenurial arrangements of informal settlers occupying public lands.
  • Section 1(a) emphasizes that development as social housing must proceed in a way that respects ongoing government clearing efforts and sanitation requirements.

Property declaration as social housing site

  • Section 1(a) declares that GSIS property in Parola, Manila is hereby declared as [a] social housing site open for disposition to qualified occupants and beneficiaries.
  • Section 1(a) frames the area as “the aforesaid property of GSIS in Parola, Manila,” consistent with the GSIS land described in the whereas clauses.
  • Executive Order No. 108 requires that social housing development must not obstruct the ongoing clearing project undertaken by the Department of Public Works and Highways.
  • Section 1(a) subjects the social housing development to compliance with the Sanitation Code (P.D. 856) and its implementing rules and regulations.

Covered land and GSIS title reference

  • Whereas clause identifies GSIS ownership of a parcel of land located in Parola, Tondo and Binondo, Manila, covered by Original Certificate of Title No. 10722, with an approximate area of seven hundred eighty one thousand eight hundred fifty seven (781,857) square meters, more or less.
  • Whereas clause states that the GSIS endorsed a portion of that property with an approximate area of one hundred nine thousand (109,000) square meters, more or less, for use as a social housing site for informal settlers and bona fide actual occupants, subject to final and actual survey.
  • Section 1(a) operationalizes the declaration for social housing disposition with focus on the GSIS property in Parola, Manila.

Mode of disposition and beneficiary framework

  • Section 2(a) requires that the mode of disposition, qualification of beneficiaries, proposed lot pricing, payment scheme, and beneficiary guidelines and other conditions be established, evaluated and implemented by an executive body.
  • Section 2(a) creates an Executive Committee composed of the GSIS as chair.
  • Section 2(a) sets Executive Committee members as Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC), Presidential Adviser for Special Concerns, National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC), Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), and Non-Government Organizations (NGO) as may be identified by the chair.
  • Section 2(a) requires the Committee to ensure that a fair pricing and payment scheme for beneficiaries is instituted.

Implementation boundaries and sanitation compliance

  • Section 1(a) requires that social housing development be pursued without obstructing the ongoing clearing project being undertaken by the Department of Public Works and Highways.
  • Section 1(a) mandates strict compliance with P.D. 856 (Sanitation Code) and its implementing rules and regulations for the development and related activities.
  • Section 1(a) connects development authorization to the shelter security objective while maintaining operational constraints on government clearing work.
  • Section 1(a) directs that disposition and development remain under conditions consistent with sanitation and implementation rules.

Separability and survival of valid provisions

  • Section 3(a) provides a separability clause: if any provision is declared invalid by any competent court or tribunal, the other provisions unaffected by the invalidity remain in full force and effect.

Immediate effect

  • Section 4(a) states that Executive Order No. 108 shall take effect immediately.

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