In a statement issued on Friday, the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) said Robredo, chair of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC), "is using the so-called housing problem" to protect the interest of real estate firms.
"Robredo is not at all concerned with the state of the homeless. She is protecting the business interests of real estate firms that are constructing overpriced, substandard, and corruption-riddled housing units in government resettlement sites," KMP secretary general Antonio Flores said.
Flores also alleged that Robredo "is pretending to protect the homeless, but her stance against land conversion is actually in chorus with the position of foreign chambers of commerce."
The Vice President was among officials who signed a petition urging President Rodrigo Duterte not to sign an executive order on the land conversion ban.
The petition was initiated by the HUDCC, along with the Departments of Finance (DOF) and Budget and Management (DBM), and the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA).
Data from the HUDCC showed that the backlog includes need for "immediate housing intervention" for at least 1.5 million informal settler families and some 1.8 million families who lost their homes to natural disasters between 2009 and 2014.
The KMP said government housing projects "can be built on non-agricultural lands," adding that it "is plain senseless to pit the people's right to housing and shelter with the right to food."
The group earlier slammed NEDA and its director general, Socioeconomic Planning Sec. Ernesto Pernia, for joining in the said petition.