Squatting in the Philippines
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Urban areas in the Philippines such as Metro Manila, Metro Cebu, and Metro Davao have large informal settlements. The Philippine Statistics Authority defines a squatter, or alternatively "informal dwe
A squatter settlement in Manila in 2007
Shacks at Payatas dumpsite in 2010
Mural by artist Seb Toussaint in a slum in Manila
Land reform in the Philippines has long been a contentious issue rooted in the concentration of land ownership in landed elites during the Spanish colonial period. Some state-led land reform initiativ
Squatting in the Philippines
…population and to families living in informal settlements. The department estimated the government's housing backlog at 6.5 million units in 2022. Land reform in the Philippines Street children in the Philippines…
President Ramon Magsaysay at the Presidential Study, Malacañang Palace