HCDRD Report Presentation
Good afternoon, allow me to present the Housing, Community Development and Resettlement
Department, formerly UPAO of Quezon City Government.
For starter, Quezon City occupies 161.12 km 2 which represents ¼ of Metro Manila’s total land
area, with population growth of 3% per year.
The biggest challenge that UPAO is tasked to solve is the Informal Settlements or the families
living in danger areas such as waterways, road right-of-ways, on top of pipelines, beneath
transmission lines, government infrastructure sites and idle privately owned lots.
UPAO was created on May 9, 1996 thru an Executive Order No. 7, Series of 1986, by the then
Mayor and “Grand father” of UPAO, Mayor Brigido R. Simon, Jr.
A special Task Force on Squatting and Resettlement was created by Mayor Ismael “MEL”
Mathay, Jr. on November 10, 1993. There were two attempts made during the administration of
Mayor Mathay to level up the status of UPAO into People’s Bureau and into Department,
however the first attempt faced legal impediments, while the second attempt was disapproved.
The plan to upgrade UPAO into Department was deferred during the term of Mayor Feliciano
“SONNY” Belmonte, Jr..
Mayor Herbert “BISTEK” Bautista facilitated the upgrading of UPAO into Housing, Community
Development and Resettlement Department (HCDRD) by virtue of Ordinance No. SP-2129,
series of 2012. “AN ORDINANCE UPGRADING AND REORGAINZING THE UPAO INTO A
DEPARTMENT TO BE KNOWN AS HOUSING, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND
RESETTLEMENT DEPARTMENT, PROVIDING FOR IT’S REVISED / NEW
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND STAFFING PATTERN, DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS
AND RESPONSIBILITIES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES”. Mayor Bautista is considered to
be the “grand father” of HCDRD.
Our first Head of UPAO, Mr. Celso S. Canonigo, who is can be considered to be the father of
UPAO, incidentally happened to be a younger brother of the firs Commissioner of the
Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP). As trivia, UPAO QC was created May 9,
1986, while PCUP was created Dec. 8, 1986 by virtue of Executive Order No. 82 s-1986, by the
President Corazon C. Aquino.
Next UPAO head is Ms. Gia Maria G. Fortuno, followed by Mr. Zosimo I. Ampongan, Jr., then by
Mr. Jaime E. Varela. During the term of Atty. Remedios C. Balbin as head of UPAO, an attempt
to upgrade the UPAO into People’s Bureau was made, but as earlier stated, it face legal
impediments and the office was eventually turned back to UPAO. During 1998-1999, Mr.
Ramon T. Asprer was appointed as Officer-In-Charge of UPAO, he was eventually appointed as
UPAO head from 2001 to 2012 and as Department Head of HCDRD to present. Mr. Asprer is
considered as the “father” of HCDRD.
HCDRD MISSION: Mandated to implement Republic Act No.7279, otherwise known as the
Urban Development Housing Act of 1992 (UDHA) , in coordination with the Social Housing
Finance Corporation, Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council, the Department of
Interior and Local Government and other government agencies concerned , the private sector
and other non-government organizations particularly focusing on socialized housing and
resettlement programs for the City’s underprivileged and homeless constituents or informal
settler families (ISFs); and to undertake programs that will ensure sustained development in the
resettlement areas or communities through continuing education, training, providing health and
welfare assistance through efficient, honest and committed delivery of public/basic services by
its employees.
OUR VISION: We envision a socially transformed community, empowered, self-reliant,
productive and self-contained community with improved quality of life provided with security of
tenure through the City’s Socialized Housing Program and suitable relocation or resettlement
sites with basic services components.
The Organizational structure of UPAO during 1998, there were only two divisions, the Housing
and Resettlement Division and the Support and Services Division.
HCDRDs Organizational structure from 2012 to present, please take note that aside from
Housing and Resettlement Division and the Support and Services Division, additional two
divisions were added, the Administrative and the Census and Planning Divisions.
On Oct. 15, 2018, Ordinance SP-2771 S-2018, known as the Affordable Housing Code of
Quezon City was enacted, this Ordinance further reiterated and define the crucial role of
HCDRD in the planning, development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all City’s
Socialized and Affordable Housing Projects
UPAO QC / HCDRD have four types of program intervention for Security of tenure and Housing
namely: (1) CMP, this is a NGA / SHFCI program wherein ISFs residing on privately-owned lot
are given chance to acquire the land they are occupying through the availing of community loan
under the SHFCI. SHFCI will pay the lot owners and the beneficiary / member of HOA shall
payback to SHFCI for twenty five (25) years (2) Direct Sale / Direct Purchase Program. For
direct sale, city-owned lots are directly sold to actual occupants as per approved subdivision
plan, lots are payable up to maximum of 15 years; while for Direct Purchase, privately-owned
lots are sold to actual occupants directly as per approved subdivision plan for a period of not
more than 5 years. (3) Housing Programs are categorized into: (a) Socialized housing, (b) public
housing; (c) Rental Housing; and (d) Transition housing (4) National Government Relocation
and Resettlement Program, this consists of NHA initiated and provided relocation site within
near-city and off-city sites.
These are the pictures of CMP sites in partnership with Gawad Kalinga, a housing NGO, the
beneficiaries bought the land thru CMP, while the Gawad Kalinga, mobilized business and
private sector for the materials and skilled labor, with the beneficiary family providing for sweat
equity labor to defray the cost of housing units.
Picture of a Direct sale or government owned lot directly sold to actual occupants payable in not
more than 15 years.
Awarding of individual lot titles to fully paid Direct Sale program beneficiaries.
Pictures of the Bistekville and QuezonCity Housing project sites.
Transition Housing site in Barangay Bagong Silangan, provided to displaced beneficiaries to
give way for the construction of their respective housing units or those affected by fire or
ejectment by court orders while awaiting for their relocation.
Picture of before and after danger area sites. Families were relocated through the assistance of
NHA,
Pictures of relocation site housing structures.
Lastly, we would like to highlight that the provision of housing is second in the 14-point agenda
of Mayor Joy Belmonte’s Administration. Thus, HCDRD is getting all the support and
assistance necessary for the attainment of said housing agenda.
Thank you very much and Godbless!!!
