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National Housing Authority Vs. Department of Agrarian Reform Adjudication Board, et al.

NATIONAL HOUSING AUTHORITY, Petitioner, versus THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM ADJUDICATION BOARD and MATEO VILLARUZ, substituted by his heirs, namely, SONIA VILLARUZ, MARGARITA VILLARUZ and CARLOS H. VILLARUZ, Respondents

G.R. No. 175200 | 2010-05-04

DECISION


ABAD, J.:

Are all lands acquired by the National Housing Authority (NHA) for its resettlement and housing efforts beyond the scope of agrarian laws? This is the question before the Court in this case.

The Facts and the Case

Sometime in 1960, the administrator of the estate of the late C.N. Hodges (the Estate) asked respondent Mateo Villaruz, Sr. (Villaruz)[1] to work as tenant of the Estate's seven-hectare rice field in Barangay Alijis, Bacolod, designated as Lot 916. The Estate wanted to prevent the land from falling into the hands of squatters. It had a house constructed on the lot for Villaruz and engaged his daughter and...