Land use misgovernance in the Philippines arise due to the non-institutionalization of a national level framework for land use and the lack of harmonization of sector-specific laws on land resources. But the effort to push for a National Land Use Act (NaLUA) is almost three decades old already...

The public land use planning process is broken. The land use plans of the principal multiple use agencies – the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) – are unnecessarily complex, take too long to complete, monopolize the time and resources of public land management agency...

Local zoning and land-use regulations have increased substantially over the decades. These constraints on land development within cities and suburbs aim to achieve various safety, environmental, and aesthetic goals. But the regulations have also tended to reduce the supply of housing, including...