The Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development or Kagawaran ng Pananahanang Pantao at Pagpapaunlad ng Kalunsuran is the primary national government entity responsible for the management of housing, human settlement and urban development. It shall be the sole and main planning and policy·making, regulatory, program coordination, and performance monitoring entity for all housing, human settlement and urban development concerns, primarily focusing on the access to and the affordability of basic human needs. It is currently headed by Secretary Jose Rizalino L. Acuzar. 

HOUSING AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT REGULATION DIVISION

1. Develop mechanisms and implement programs, in coordination with attached agencies and concerned agencies, that will initiate and promote the establishment of estate and new towns, new settlements, urban renewal programs, and prototypes of housing and urban development interventions, including the people's plan approach , while encouraging the participation therein of local government partnerships with civil society organizations, nongovernment organizations, private groups and communities;

2. Manage and oversee the development of proclaimed socialized and economic housing 'sites, including the use of these land assets as resource mobilization strategy to raise alternative resources in developing new housing projects and efficient financing programs, either by itself or through its attached agencies;

3. Implement a single regulatory system that shall govern all activities relative to the planning, production, marketing, and management of housing and urban development projects; and 

4. Take over unfinished, incomplete or abandoned licensed real estate development projects under Presidential Decree No. 957 , in coordination with the appropriate government agencies and instrumentalities, under such guidelines as may be formulated. Further, the Department shall be in charge of regulating the use of road and street systems of projects taken over under this provisions.