Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development Secretary Jose Acuzar on Sunday revealed that he had issued an order creating technical working groups to implement the provisions of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.'s Executive Order 34.

This is in line with the government's focus on swiftly identifying government-owned land across the country particularly for housing.

Through Department Order 2023-020 dated 25 November, Acuzar instructed the TWGs to lead the identification and vetting of government-owned lands for housing, human settlements and urban development.

The TWGs consist of pool of experts on environmental, land use, urban planning and development, public housing and settlements and Pambansang Pabahay para sa Pilipino Program from both the Department's central and regional offices.

It will be headed concurrently by the Undersecretary for Planning, Undersecretary Henry Yap, while TWGs in the regional offices are to be headed by chiefs of their respective Environmental, Land Use and Urban Planning and Development Divisions.

To recall, EO 34 declared 4PH as flagship program of the government and mandated DHSUD to lead activities on idle land inventory.