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The super agency would further increase the cost of “socialized housing,” enrich real estate developers and, justify and speed up the eviction and demolition of informal settlers.
“We wanted to know why up to now, thousands of housing units are still idle."
“People are asking the demolition team to show documents authorizing the demolition but they could not show anything. They just said it was Mayor Robert Eusebio’s orders, and they did not need to show papers.”
Homelessness rises as another community is torn down by demolition.
“There will be no dissent if only the government were truthful in serving the people.”
In a symbolic action in Manila on Sept. 19, members of urban poor group Kadamay and artists' group Resbak portrayed themselves as victims of Duterte's war on drugs and burn an effigy of the president depicted as 'Night King.'
Parents of 10 minors aged 12 to 17 who are being detained at a youth facility are being denied their right to visit their children.
“The demands of the residents are legitimate and the local government unit as well as the national agencies concerned with housing programs could have engaged the residents in a more extensive and comprehensive dialogue so that violence could have been prevented.”
Different groups today, Aug. 21, joined the “Walk for Justice” in Caloocan City to demand police accountability in the killing of a minor and for all victims of President Duterte’s War on Drugs.
In their posts, Filipino netizens have expressed their doubts over the same-old “nanlaban” narrative of the police who claimed that the slain Grade 11 student resisted arrest and fired at the cops.
A group of families of victims of drug-related killings use art to move on and seek justice.
“Pushing through with the demolition will only add to the number of homeless.”
“Because of extreme poverty, the government should create and provide regular jobs to enable the poor majority to live decent lives.”
“Where is the change that you promised?”
“All we need right after the fire tragedy is speedy government support and economic aid. We don’t want to be displaced from our community because it means taking us away from our sources of livelihood.”
“Where will they get the money for bail? This is further oppression of the poor whose only fault is to fight for the land they have been living on for more than 30 years.”
At Camp Karingal, the police did not even bother feeding the 57 Apollo residents it ‘arrested.’
"They have lived in the streets for nine months, with no relocation or aid, and now that they are reclaiming what is rightfully theirs, they are being treated like criminals?"
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