Rappler's latest stories on informal settlers
[OPINION] How millennials are helping informal settlers and the homeless
It is precisely because we millennials are socially aware and innovative that we are needed in the public sector
House panel wants in-city relocation for 18k informal settlers along QC's Segment 8.2
The National Housing Authority have made 1,000 relocation units available, but they are in Bulacan
CDO needs P26 billion, 350,000 hectares of land to house informal settlers
On record, Cagayan de Oro has 51,471 families of informal settlers
Informal settlers along El Nido coast to be relocated – DENR
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources says the local government has issued a final notice to vacate to 24 families residing along Corong Corong beach
Some Kadamay members in Bulacan previously given NHA houses
This makes the Kadamay members ineligible for another housing unit from the government
Manila to relocate 7,000 families in esteros
The Manila city government is looking into reclaiming a portion of Manila Bay for its housing project with China s Shanghai Nanjiang Group
Bulacan informal settlers urge NHA to approve housing applications
Members of Partido Manggagawa in Bulacan say their applications have been pending with the National Housing Authority for two years and counting
Daughter of oldest detained Kadamay member seeks mother's release
Epifana Rufa 83 is the oldest Kadamay member detained in Camp Karingal over charges of trespassing and coercion
Taguiwalo appeals for release of detained elderly Kadamay members
Senior citizens have been arrested with a group for occupying a site from which they were evicted They sleep on pavements wooden planks at Camp Karingal
Part 2: The battle of the land titles
Two investigations – one in Manila and another in Quantico Virginia – on the documents related to the Ragua heirs land claim in Quezon City yield interesting and possibly far reaching results
Part 1: 'Rightful' owners of prime lot in QC fight back
Heirs of the purported owner of the prime lot where SM North EDSA and Trinoma Mall now stand want to get back what they believe to be legally and rightfully theirs
Gov't bans demolitions during Christmas season
The Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor issues a moratorium on demolitions around the country until January 2017
Duterte’s first SONA: What marginalized sectors want to hear
President Rodrigo Duterte has made remarkable promises to long neglected sectors in the country What do members of these marginalized sectors have to say about these pronouncements?
When a child raises a child
An 18 year old mother tries her best to keep her 1 year old malnourished baby alive
VLOG: Binay, opposition lead Typhoon Yolanda commemoration
Vice President Jejomar Binay visits typhoon hit Leyte to campaign and to check on the condition of the survivors
After Haiyan: The ship that stayed
One of the ships that ran aground in Tacloban now serves as a memorial for those who died during Typhoon Haiyan Yolanda
'Iiskwaton kami': Displacement, resistance in Leyte 2 years after Yolanda
In some communities in Leyte Super Typhoon Yolanda is part of a broader history of threatened eviction displacement and marginalization of communities doing their best to stay afloat
Urban poor's #TheLeaderIWant: Consult, listen, deliver
According to urban poor community leaders the next Philippine president should push for an inclusive and participatory approach to ending poverty
NGCP: Informal settlers hamper transmission line projects
The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines warns that breakdown of power transmission structures would result in the loss of bulk power supply to Metro Manila
Cop shot as demolition of homes turns violent in Caloocan
Police Officer 1 Virgilio Cabangis is shot by one of the residents of Calaanan compound in Caloocan City trying to fend off the demolition team
Informal settlers, police clash at demolition of QC homes
The families are relocated to Pandi Bulacan
Forest paradise re-emerges in Philippine capital
The only nature park in Manila the La Mesa watershed a thicket about a fifth the size of Paris wraps around a dam that stores drinking water for the metropolis of 14 million people
Makati Home Ville: Where lies the truth?
Many of the residents actually agree that their life is better at Makati Home Ville
Former OFW leads neighborhood housing project
How an open mind perseverance and faith brought a woman and her group of informal settlers to their dream community
44 families evacuate in QC as apartment collapses
No injuries have been reported in the collapse of a 4 storey apartment in Barangay Piñahan Quezon City
The return of Baywalk’s banished ‘bedspacers’
Strange how a day before Pope Francis comes to Manila 100 or so people seem to have vanished They seem to have magically disappeared from the same place where the sea swallows the sun
What they are hiding from Pope Francis
Will Pope Francis ever witness the great divide between the country’s rich and poor?
Escudero: DILG budget won't help Roxas' 2016 'bid'
Responding to critics Senator Francis Escudero says using an informal settlers relocation program to boost one’s chances in 2016 doesn’t make sense
Public hanging: Manila’s homeless and the Philippines' dirty linen
The new street homeless are everywhere – in the streets on sidewalks along the seawall of Manila Bay and outside idle lands abandoned buildings – as ubiquitous as their dirty laundry left to hang dry in full view of the public eye
Sleeping above tombs and living among the dead
None of the residents are afraid of the dead There are other things to be afraid of they say like the lack of means to continue living
Roxas to informal settlers: Don't wait for us to evict you
Some 75 000 families remain in Metro Manila s danger zones but the DILG secretary says gov t is on track in fulfilling the President s 2013 SONA promise to relocate them
Families living under Quirino Bridge strive to survive
For families living in Estero de Pandacan surviving each day is a battle without government support
DBM releases P1.2B for informal settlers' housing project
The housing project will adopt a Community Mortgage Program approach wherein an organized community will initiate and manage their own project
DILG removes 4,400 families from danger zones
An estimated number of 60 000 families reside along Manila s creeks and waterways
Aquino: 11,000 Metro Manila families relocated by August
The relocation will not only bring informal settler families to safer ground it will also help solve the flooding problem in the metro
'Green' houses for Manila's informal settlers
The micro medium rise buildings on Estero de San Miguel can withstand up to magnitude 7 earthquakes
Estero de San Miguel: Where every settler is a Soriano
The Aquino government launches an on site relocation program for informal settlers near Malacañang but rules on choosing beneficiaries are changing
P3.38B released to relocate Metro Manila's estero families
The amount covers the deficit and cash requirements of constructing housing projects outside the NCR for the months of September and October
Forest land illegally sold in Negros Occidental – task force
Task Force Ilahas has found that more than 30 hectares of the Northern Negros Natural Park have been sold by illegal settlers to private individuals – and the number is expected to rise
The 'Apartment': Living among the dead
Informal settlers at the Manila North Cemetery – some 10 000 of them – live in constant fear of eviction For them life is where dead men lie
Informal settlers: Integration, not just relocation
For as long as economic activity is heavily concentrated in a few urban areas no one can really blame the poor for wanting to leave their relocation sites in exchange for brighter prospects in the city centers
Palace to estero dwellers: You have to go
An inter agency headed by DILG Secretary Mar Roxas begins relocating over 20 000 families living along Metro Manila waterways
JV: Sue barangay execs with squatter ‘colonies’
Sen JV Ejercito says don t always blame the governors or mayors – barangay officials are usually the ones coddling squatters as a source of votes
#PugadBaboy: Imbyernang Settlers
Bianca Gonzalez professional haters and squatters
#PugadBaboy: Imbyernang Settlers punchline 2
Bianca Gonzalez professional haters squatters and resettlement areas
#PugadBaboy: Imbyernang Settlers punchline 3
Bianca Gonzalez professional haters squatters and the Chinese in the Spratly Islands
Informal settlers under a bridge await relocation
They live under the bridge to survive Now the government is offering informal settlers along the Tullahan river a chance to move to houses safe from floods
Demolition attempt turns violent in QC
Informal settlers along Agham Road throw rocks broken glass and feces at policemen who were carrying out demolition plans
NAPC to youth activists: Relocation plans are ‘humanitarian'
The National Anti Poverty Commission NAPC maintains that the planned relocation projects do not violate human rights
Palace on relocation critics: We pity 'negastars'
Lacierda: The government is here to serve to help the people The negastars think everything the government does is wrong
