The Board of Commissioners which sets and promulgates HLURB policies and steers its operation, is a nine-man crew with the Chairman, HUDCC at the helm, as ex-officio Chairman. Its members are four full-time Commissioners appointed by the President with one designated as the Chief Executive Officer, and four ex-officio Commissioners, namely the Undersecretaries of the Department of Justice, Interior and Local Governments and Public Works and Highways and the Deputy Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority.