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The Philippine Constitution upholds the principle of equitable land access for all sectors and provides that “all sectors of the economy and all regions of the country shall be given optimum opportunity to develop.” Similarly, the Bill of Rights ensures that “no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of …
Among the many bills on housing and real estate pending in the legislature is House Bill No. 6545 or the proposed National Land Use and Management Act (NLUMA). In the last 21st CREBA National Convention in Palawan, Cong. Rodolfo G. Valencia reported that the current version of the bill, principally authored by Cong. Kaka Bag-ao, …
Among the many bills pending in the Senate which directly impact housing and real estate development are several versions instituting a National Land Use Policy. The Constitution mandates that all sectors and all regions of the country should be given optimum opportunity to develop. Under this mandate is the principle of equitable land access for …
“Land is indispensable to any and all human activity; and how a nation uses its lands, to a large extent determines its fate – whether its people will remain as tillers of the soil or homeless nomads, or prosper along with the better part of the human race.” Ever since the Department of Agrarian Reform …
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Perhaps no other governmental act has been as detrimental to housing and other non-agricultural activities as the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). So much so that the rancor attending the ensuing long-standing battle for land access was unprecedented in the history of CREBA. In 1987, then President Corazon Aquino promulgated three major issuances that led …
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