APR - Planning Review - Pop Quiz

When a person owns both the land and the house sitting on it, that’s called:

• Freehold ownership

• Leasehold ownership

• Usufruct

• Bahay ni Kuya arrangement

RA 7279, also known as the Urban Development and Housing Act (UDHA), mainly aims to:

• Give free Netflix to all residents

• Provide affordable housing and promote balanced urban development

• Build skyscrapers for the elite

• Allow aliens (the outer space kind) to buy land

Under UDHA’s balanced housing rule, private developers must allocate about:

• 2% of projects for socialized housing

• 10% of projects for government use

• 15–20% of projects for socialized housing

• Their entire subdivision to their tita’s real estate firm

The term informal settler refers to:

• Someone who camps in Baguio for fun

• Occupants without legal claim or tenure on the land they live on

• People living in RVs by choice

• Renters who never pay their internet bill

Which government agency now leads the human settlements and housing sector?

• HLURB

• DHSUD

• HUDCC

• DPWH (but with a paint job)

During the Marcos era, the Ministry of Human Settlements was established mainly to:

• Regulate karaoke use in subdivisions

• Institutionalize human settlements planning and housing regulation

• Promote tourism housing

• Build the world’s largest disco

The law protecting subdivision and condo buyers (so they don’t get scammed) is:

• PD 957

• BP 220

• RA 7279

• PD 1085 — The Anti-Heartbreak Decree

BP 220 mainly provides for:

• Housing projects for the rich and famous

• Standards for economic and socialized housing developments

• Rules for high-rise luxury condos only

• Zoning for movie locations

The concept where people can use and enjoy a property without owning it is called:

• Freehold

• Leasehold

• Usufruct

• Borrow lang, promise to return

The government’s “balik-probinsya” programs and relocation efforts usually aim to:

• Decentralize urban population and reduce congestion in Metro Manila

• Send people to the moon

• Create more urban poor areas

• Make everyone plant kamote full-time