The struggle for their right to housing taught them that they have bigger fights to win.
Amid attacks, urban poor persist in fight for right to housing
Tags: #OccupyBulacan
Urban poor women of Pandi sowing seeds of hope
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.
Caravan to assert right to housing, resist eviction in Pandi held
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 of homeless as they protest the recent moves of the government to evict…
Class act
Fear more than envy drives much of the media and the middle class’ insult-laden rants and self-righteous outrage over the occupation of idle National Housing Authority (NHA) housing projects in Bulacan by the urban poor group Kadamay (Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap — literally, gathering of mutually supportive poor). Even the news reports in the corporate…
Housing authority to process urban poor occupants in Bulacan
Kadamay declares “initial victory” for #OccupyBulacan.
25 years of UDHA | Still no housing for the poor
“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.”
#OccupyBulacan | Manila-based groups show support for urban poor
Support poured in for the urban poor occupying idle houses in Bulacan.
#OccupyBulacan | Urban poor group vows to continue barricade in gov’t housing projects
“Homelessness amid rotting houses meant for the poor is unjust.”