EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 98, May 02, 2002

DECLARING THE AVAILABLE LANDS OF THE SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (SPDA) AS SOCIALIZED HOUSING SITES

WHEREAS, it is the priority concern of the present Administration to provide housing to deserving landless and homeless families and ensure security of tenure of informal settler families occupying government lands which are no longer utilized for their intended purposes;

WHEREAS, a Memorandum dated 05 February 2001 directs all heads of departments, agencies, government-owned and/or controlled corporations and their instrumentalities to identify areas which may be proclaimed for socialized housing purposes;

WHEREAS, said memorandum is in accordance with the policy of the present Administration of regularizing the land tenurial status of informal settlers occupying public lands;

WHEREAS, the Southern Philippines Development Authority (SPDA), a government-owned and controlled corporation, owns several properties in Mindanao consisting of sixty-seven (67) hectares, more or less;

WHEREAS, the SPDA has expressed its intention to segregate and make use of these properties by awarding them to their present informal and bona fide settlers under the socialized housing program of the government;

WHEREAS, the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) has agreed to cooperate and assist SPDA in the development of its vacant lands into low-cost housing and other development projects in Mindanao;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO , President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby authorize the Southern Philippines Development Authority (SPDA) to effect the disposition of its properties to its bona fide occupants and to develop the vacant lots for socialized housing purposes, subject to private rights, if any there be, and to final survey.

The properties covered by this Order are as follows:

TCT NO.	AREA IN SQ.M.	LOCATION
T-59844	67605	Catitipan, Davao City
T-58043	1000	Malagamot, Davao City
T-59172	1000	Malagamot, Davao City
T-59173	1,000	Malagamot, Davao City
T-59174	1,000	Malagamot, Davao City
T-59175	1,001	Malagamot, Davao City
T-59176	1,001	Malagamot, Davao City
T-59386	1,000	Malagamot, Davao City
T-59387	1,006	Malagamot, Davao City
T-3846	16,137	Valencia City, Bukidnon
T-50170	80,000	Buldon, Maguindanao
T-50171	80,000	Buldon, Maguindanao
T-34095	15,431	Libungan, North Cotabato
T-61635	63,492	Kidapawan, N. Cotabato
T-3782	41,948	Don Carlos, Maramag
T-11852	89,701	Maramag, Bukidnon
T-6487	72,061	Maticao, Misamis Oriental
T-9146	121,020	Alubijid, Misamis Oriental

It is also hereby ordered that an inter-agency committee be formed to formulate the Master Development Plan and implementing guidelines for the proper disposition of the properties in question. The Inter-Agency Committee shall be chaired by SPDA and co-chaired by HUDCC, with the following as members: Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor, concerned Local Government Units, and People’s Organizations and Non-Government Organizations as may be identified by the Chair and Co-Chair.

IN WITNESS THEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 2nd day of May, in the year of Our Lord, two thousand and two.

(SGD.) GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO

By the President:

(SGD.) ALBERTO G. ROMULO

Executive Secretary