EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 98 - 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 67,605 Catitipan, Davao City
T-58043 1,000 Malagamot, Davao City
T-59172 1,000 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