{"id":39039,"date":"2015-01-19T23:47:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T15:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=39039"},"modified":"2015-01-19T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T15:50:10","slug":"real-estate-group-pushes-for-land-conversion-to-address-housing-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/19\/real-estate-group-pushes-for-land-conversion-to-address-housing-backlog\/","title":{"rendered":"Real estate group pushes for land conversion to address housing backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MANILA — The Chamber of Real Estate and Builders\u2019 Associations, Inc. (CREBA) has stressed its support to the National Land Use Act (NLUA) provided that the bill allows conversion of some land for agricultural production to housing projects to address housing backlog.<\/p>\n

CREBA National Chair Charlie V. Gorayeb said the housing sector does not threatened the agriculture sector through converting land area for agricultural production for real estate developments as the housing sector uses small percentage of the country\u2019s total land area.<\/p>\n

Gorayeb showed that according to CREBA\u2019s data affirmed by the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA), only 2.26 percent or 664,473 hectares of the total land area of the Philippines were utilized by built-up area which includes real estate development and road projects, among others.<\/p>\n

He added that agricultural area has the largest share in the pie with 12.6 million hectares or utilizing 42.72 percent of the country\u2019s land area.<\/p>\n

He also noted that the developments in non-agricultural area did not diminish the agricultural land area.<\/p>\n

Citing the data, built-up land coverage expanded another 1.25 percent in a span of seven years from 1.01 percent in 2003 to 2.26 percent in 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cLands built up or developed for non-agricultural uses — from time immemorial up to year 2010 — amounted to less than 3.0 percent of the country\u2019s total land area,\u201d CREBA stressed.<\/p>\n

Agricultural land coverage expanded faster that non-agricultural land to another 5.39 percent from covering only 37.33 percent of the country\u2019s total land area in 20013 against 2010\u2019s 42.72 percent.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite progress brought about by non-agricultural land development — including government buildings, educational and medical institutions, commercial, industrial and residential facilities, airports and roads for the benefit of the entire nation — agricultural lands still comprise the largest of the country\u2019s total land area,\u201d CREBA added.<\/p>\n

The business group defended that the private land sector does not threatened reducing land area for agricultural production, food security, and depriving farmers of their livelihood.<\/p>\n

Gorayeb also highlighted socioeconomic contributions of the housing sector including hastening household spending contributing to economic growth, employment creation, business generation, and tax revenue generation.<\/p>\n

Provided that the housing sector can get larger slice of the country\u2019s total land area, it can also address the 5.5 million housing backlog in the country.<\/p>\n

According to CREBA, a three-hectare land can be provide houses for 600 urban poor families.<\/p>\n

\u201cCREBA fully supports enactment of the proposed NLUA, provided that the provisions of the laws mentioned are included and affirmed in the proposed law and the lands set aside for non-agricultural development under said laws are categorically exempted from any provision relating to conversion ban or restrictions and\/or redistribution under the CARP,\u201d the organization said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith respect to the development of said lands, CREBA fully supports inclusion of any reasonable provision that will protect the environment and preserve ecological balance,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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