THE PHILIPPINE PRIVATE SECTOR INITIATIVE:

A NEW HUMAN SETTLEMENTS AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT AGENDA

2019 OSHDP NATIONAL CONVENTION RESOLUTIONS

As the leading organization of mass housing developers in the country, the Organization
of Socialized and Economic Housing Developers of the Philippines, Inc. RESOLVES to initiate
a New Human Settlements and Urban Development Agenda in the era of the Department of
Human Settlements and Urban Development, and DECLARES with one voice:

1. Our strong support for the newly established Department of Human Settlements and
Urban Development or DHSUD;

We resolve to cooperate with DHSUD in the harmonisation of

existing policies, rules, regulations and other issuances to ensure
efficiency in the delivery of department’s services;

2. Our unified call for charting a new vision and comprehensive human settlements and
urban development framework for the year 2020-2040 to broaden the perspective not
only of housing but also of urban development agenda, taking into consideration disaster
resiliency, inclusiveness, transportation and mobility, and digital governance and
innovation;

We resolve to call on DHSUD, the different Key Shelter Agencies,

other National Government Agencies, and Local Government Units to
cast a new vision in the era of the Department of Human Settlements and
Urban Development;

We resolve to review and examine all set targets under the

Philippine Development Plan for shelter and housing, the effectiveness
of all performance indicators vis-à-vis the new agenda and new vision
under the new regime, and expand these performance indicators to
incorporate other critical areas that need special focus and
improvement;

3. Our firm commitment to promote integrity, accountability, efficiency and effective

practices in the delivery of housing and basic services;

We resolve to work closely with DHSUD and the Anti-Red Tape

Authority (ARTA) to promote simplification of government permitting
processes and rationalisation of overlapping roles and functions of other
national government agencies and local government units, in accordance
with the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Delivery of Government
Services Act or R.A. No. 11032;

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 We resolve to innovate and make use of technology-based
approaches, including e-housing permitting system, to achieve the
aforementioned purposes;

We resolve to work closely with frontline government offices to

address critical processes for the benefit of our fellow homebuyers/home
borrowers, particularly Pag-IBIG Fund, Bureau of Internal Revenue
(BIR), Local Assessors and the Land Registration Authority, specifically
on improving take-out mechanisms, issuances of certificates of authority
to register (CAR), electronic primary entry book (EPEB), and printing of
judicial forms;

We resolve to support legislative initiatives to review outdated

laws in property registration and related processes given the
technological advances, e-commerce and block-chain;

4. Our active leadership and participation in policymaking and governance consistent with
our constitutional role as private sector partner in the delivery of affordable and quality
housing;

We resolve to participate in the National Human Settlements

Board (NHSB), different Technical Working Groups (TWG) and Housing
Policy Working Committees (HPWC) to bring in the private sector
agenda in policy-making and participatory governance;

5. Our solid advocacy to expand housing finance by calling on the Department of Budget
and Management (DBM) and Congress to allocate a firm budgetary commitment, and we
resolve to push for: -

(a) Human settlements and urban development in the short-,

medium- and long-terms, including but not limited to earmarking of P50
Billion pesos yearly up to 2022;

(b) The inclusiveness and strengthening of the primary mortgage

market to accommodate low-income, minimum wage, and informal
income earners;

(c) New subsidy and alternative rights-based financing program;

(d) A functioning home guaranty system; and,

(e) The expansion and development of the secondary mortgage

market and rental housing program;

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6. Our singular endorsement of a functioning free market-led housing by redefining the
price ceiling under R.A. No. 10884 on various types of housing units and withdrawing
unnecessary government regulatory interference;

We resolve to work on redefining socialised housing based on

multi-modal government programs that complement the price ceilings,
minimum floor areas and design standards definitions;

We resolve to adopt a comprehensive review of all price ceilings

or amortisation loan ceilings for socialised housing, economic housing,
low-cost housing, medium-cost housing and open market housing;

We resolve to call for decentralization of accreditation and

processing of socialised housing accreditation and compliance;

7. Our collective call for technology-based, demand driven minimum development

standards in urban and urbanizing centers, and the imperative of separate review of new
standards under P.D. No. 957 and B.P. Blg. 220, independent of price ceilings;

We resolve to work with technical experts and professionals in

the field of architecture, urban planning, engineering and fire protection
as well as all other stakeholders in the review and setting of new
minimum design and building standards and other reference codes for
the development of mass housing and other real estate developments;

We resolve to explore several innovations in building systems and

materials, green technology and renewable energy;

8. Our openness to reforms such as Comprehensive Income Tax and Incentives Reform Act
(CITIRA or formerly, TRABAHO Bill), Valuation Reform Act and National Land Use
Act, where we urgently move for the DHSUD to take an active leadership role and ensure
that urban development and human settlements are very well taken into account;

We resolve to support legislative efforts in lowering down

corporate income taxes;

We resolve to object to any removal of tax incentives and

exemption programs that are an integral feature of the balanced housing
development act. Any such removal shall amount to making R.A. No.
7279, as amended by R.A. No. 10884, confiscatory and legally
untenable; otherwise, the repeal of incentives provision must necessarily
carry the removal of the mandatory socialised housing compliance of
main real estate development projects;

9. Our clear bias in favor of evidence-based policymaking, and the establishment of a

national data center integrating an information system on housing starts, housing stock

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 inventory, building and occupancy data, inventory loss and obsolescence, and informal
settlement households and beneficiaries;

We resolve to work with the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA),

through the Center for Housing and Independent Research Synergies,
Inc. (CHAIRS), and the DHSUD in improving the national census and
housing statistics to include residential building construction in the
regions, occupancy rates, housing starts, local shelter plans and
databank on potential beneficiaries;

10. Our willingness to work with other stakeholders and associations in unifying the private
sector in order to achieve the above-mentioned vision, goals and objectives.

We resolve to strengthen our partnerships and collaborations

with other real estate development organisations and real estate service
professional associations, civil society groups and non-government
organizations through the Socialized Housing Aliiance for Roundtable
Endeavor (SHARE), and the academe and research centers through
CHAIRS.

Adopted this 30th day of August 2019 at Grand Men Seng Hotel, Davao City.