Amid attacks, urban poor persist in fight for right to housing
The struggle for their right to housing taught them that they have bigger fights to win.
The struggle for their right to housing taught them that they have bigger fights to win.
While middle class citizens in the Metro have started tending to plants as a way to cope with their isolation, urban poor communities, with no option to work from home, collectively cultivated gardens to put food on their tables.
The group also calls for the scrapping of the Senate Bill 1578, an Act Creating the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD). By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Urban poor group Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) led thousands...
Kadamay declares “initial victory” for #OccupyBulacan.
“Many informal settlers are struggling to meet their families’ daily basic needs, and are also ineligible for housing loans from the Home Mutual Development Fund (HMDF) and Pag-IBIG.”
Support poured in for the urban poor occupying idle houses in Bulacan.
“Homelessness amid rotting houses meant for the poor is unjust.”
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