Focuses on providing access to decent, affordable, resilient and sustainable housing communities, particularly the underprivileged and those in the low-income bracket in the Philippines.

A multi-dimensional concept relating to the process of residing and the objects of dwelling whose main attributes are location relative to access to livelihood, tenure arrangements, cost and physical structure, as well as their environment?

A sector of the economy, an important category of land use in both urban and rural areas, especially in cities, and is an important factor in the overall dynamics of the urban system.

The physical components of shelter and infrastructure.

The services to which the physical elements provide support, such as community services which include education, health, culture, welfare, recreation and nutrition.

The name coined by Constantinos A. Doxiadis to the science of settlement.

Refers to programs and projects owned and/ or managed by the government for the purpose of providing housing to underserved families.

The process of occupation and use of land or space for activities such as residential, industrial, commercial and the like or their combinations, necessary to carry out the functions of urban living.

The process that involves the planning of diverse elements that comprise an urbanizing and urbanized area, including its physical infrastructure, environment, housing, transportation and management of land use and urban growth.

Provides a mutual provident savings system for private and government employees and other earning groups, supported by matching mandatory contributions of their respective employers, with housing as the primary investment.

Functioning as a production and financing arm in housing and exercising all other functions based on its existing charter and its other mandates as provided under existing laws.

A government corporation mandated to increase the availability of affordable housing finance to support the Filipino homebuyers on their acquisition of housing units through the development and operation of a secondary market for home mortgages and other housing related receivables.

The lead government agency tasked to develop and implement social housing programs for low-income groups in the formal and informal sectors, especially the underprivileged and homeless in order to uphold their right to adequate housing through flexible, affordable, innovative and responsive shelter financing, and development / production solutions that are community-driven.

The “New Department” assumes the function of the two (2) government agencies as these two were reconstituted except for adjudication. What were these two government agencies?