Distinctively, MinLand has developed its distinguished expertise in project development in securing land tenure needs through the CMP and direct purchase, community infrastructure and basic services, enterprise development, housing project development of poor communities, coordination and networking with other resource providers such as local government units, national government agencies and foreign funding institutions. In addition, MinLand has also pilot-tested livelihood enterprises such as the production of micro-concrete roofing tiles, environment-friendly and indigenous walling materials, and community-based production of compressed earth blocks.

MinLand's success in its CMP projects, with notably high repayment rates ranging from 87-95%, lies on its mandatory adoption of the standard template it developed that extensively looks into the affordability and willingness to pay of the community members/beneficiaries.

MinLand's advocacy work is done in close collaboration with multi-sectoral groups and is directed at ensuring efficiency in housing delivery focusing on the most disadvantaged groups. MinLand has provided active leadership in steering the National Congress of CMP Originators and Social Housing Developers since its inception more than 10 years ago. It is also part of the Philippine Undertaking for Social Housing (PUSH) which provides financial intermediation for social housing projects implemented nation-wide by NGO partners.

Today, MinLand has also set its focus on providing the conditions for further investment with sustainable resource use, building institutional capacity for informed planning, and achieving participation and ownership through consultation programmes and awareness initiatives.

MinLand takes pride in the distinction that it is one of the only two institutions in the entire Philippines that formally assists local government units in preparing local shelter plans. It has already come up with a standard template in developing shelter plans, starting in 1997 up to the present, which has been the prototype of LGU adopted shelter plans in 12 urban centers in Mindanao .