PP 01 - RA 11201

• What is republic act of the "Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development"?

  RA 11201
• It refers to the most reasonable price of land and shelter based on the needs and financial capability of program beneficiaries and appropriate financing schemes.

  Affordable Cost
• It refers to lands devoted to or suitable for the cultivation of the soil, planting of crops, growing of trees, raising of livestock, poultry, fish or aquaculture production, including the harvesting of such farm products, and other farm activities and practices performed in conjunction with such farming operations by persons whether natural or juridical and not classified by law as mineral land, forest land, residential land, commercial land, or industrial land as defined in RA 8435, otherwise known as the “Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act”

  Agricultural Lands
• It refers to a project whose development has not been completed in accordance with the approved development plan despite the lapse of at least ten years from the target date of completion and it appears that the project owner or developer has no intention to complete the project development or, despite diligent effort for at least the last five years, the project owner or developer cannot be located

  Abandoned Subdivision or Condominium
• It refers to the process of empowering communities.

  Community Development
• It refers to a mortgage financing program of the Social Housing Finance Corporation which assists legally organized associations of underprivileged and homeless citizens to purchase and develop a tract of land under the concept of community ownership

  Community Mortgage Program
• It refers to the document, formulated by the local government in consultation with its stakeholders, that defines or provides guidelines on the allocation, utilization, development and management of all lands.

  Comprehensive Land Use Plan
• It refers to the entire parcel of real property divided or to be divided primarily for residential purposes and complies with PD 957.

  Condominium Project
• It refers to residential subdivision projects and condominium projects which are sold at or below the prevailing price ceiling and complies with the requirements of BP 220.

  Economic Housing Project
• It refers to the multi-disciplinary art and science of analyzing, specifying, clarifying, harmonizing, managing and regulating the use and development of land and water resources, in relation to their environs, for the development of sustainable communities and ecosystems.

  Environmental Planning
• It refers to subdivisions, condominium buildings, medium-rise buildings, new settlements and other similar residential projects owned, managed or funded by the government.

  Government Housing Project
• It refers to parcels of land whose ownership or title pertains to the government, or any of its agencies, subdivisions, or instrumentalities, including government-owned or controlled corporations and their subsidiaries and lands placed under the jurisdiction of the above entities by virtue of proclamations signed by the President.

  Government Lands
• It refers to a non-stock, nonprofit corporation registered with the Department, organized by owners or purchasers of a lot in a subdivision/village or other residential real property located within the jurisdiction of the association.

  Homeowners Association
• A multi-dimensional concept relating to the process of residing and the objects of dwelling whose main attributes are location relative to access to livelihood, tenure arrangements, cost and physical structure, as well as their environment.

  Housing
• It refers to an association organized to assist or provide access to housing for the benefit of its regular members who actively participate in the savings program for housing. It is co-owned and controlled by its members

  Housing Cooperative
• It refers to the comprehensive funds flow system covering the entire housing provision cycle from identification of financial requirements to fund sourcing for various aspects of the housing program.

  Housing Finance
• The physical components of shelter and infrastructure.

  Human Settlements
• It refers to non-agricultural lands in urban and urbanizable areas on which no improvements have been made by the owner, as certified by the city, municipal or provincial assessor.

  Idle Lands
• It refers to a relocation site within the jurisdiction of the local government unit where the informal settler families are living

  In-City Resettlement
• It refers to households living in a lot, whether private or public, without the consent of the property owner.

  Informal Settler Families
• It refers to the acquisition of land at values based on existing use in advance of actual need to promote planned development and socialized housing programs.

  Land Banking
• It refers to provinces, cities, municipalities, and barangay.

  Local Government Unit
• It refers to a document which provides information on the analysis of the present local housing situation.

  Local Shelter Plan
• It refers to a relocation site within the jurisdiction of a LGU adjacent to the LGU having jurisdiction over the present settlements of the informal settler families.

  Near-City Resettlement
• It refers to a group of potential public housing beneficiaries living in contiguous areas, identified and accredited by or organized with the assistance of the LGU for the purpose of availing of housing programs or projects being implemented by the said LGU.

  Neighborhood Association
• It refers to the development of a site outside and not adjacent to the LGU where the affected informal settler families have their settlements

  Off-city Relocation
• It refers to the plan formulated by the beneficiary-association, which shall contain a site development plan.

  People's Plan
• It refers to an early sample, model of a housing project or design.

  Prototype Pojects
• It refers to a contractual agreement between the Government and a private firm targeted towards financing, designing, implementing and operating infrastructure facilities and services that were traditionally provided by the public sector.

  Public-Private Partnership
• It refers to programs and projects owned and/or managed by the government for the purpose of providing housing to underserved families

  Public Housing
• It refers to subdivisions, condominiums, townhouses, memorial parks, columbaria and other similar projects.

  Real Estate Projects
• It refers to housing where the occupancy is permitted by the owner in consideration of the agreed payment charges.

  Rental Housing
• It refers to sites identified by the appropriate national agency or by the LGU within its jurisdiction, which shall be used for the relocation of the underprivileged and homeless citizens and other qualified households.

  Resettlement Areas
• It refers to housing that is equipped with an adequate capacity to resist, absorb and accommodate the effects of climate change and hazards and to return to normal conditions in a timely and effective manner without significant changes to its basic functions and structures.

  Resilient Housing
• It refers to the process of improving the quality of life and economic well-being of people living in rural areas.

  Rural Development
• It refers to housing programs and projects covering houses and lots or home lots only, or residential condominium units undertaken by the government or the private sector for the underprivileged and homeless citizens.

  Socialized Housing
• It refers to residential subdivision projects and condominium projects undertaken by the government or the private sector which are sold at or below the prevailing price ceiling for socialized housing.

  Socialized Housing Project
• It pertains to the imposition of the additional one-half percent (0.5%) tax on the assessed value of all lands in urban areas in excess of fifty thousand pesos (P50,000.00) that LGUs are authorized to impose under Section 43 of RA 7279.

  Socialized Housing Tax
• It refers to a tract or a parcel of land, which is partitioned primarily for residential purposes into individual lots with or without improvements.

  Subdivision Project
• It refers to the beneficiaries of RA 7279 and to individuals or families residing in urban and urbanizable areas whose income or combined household income falls within the poverty threshold.

  Underprivileged and Homeless Citizens