Saturday, November 14, 2009

Manila eviction

780,000 squatters will soon lose their homes in the Philippine capital, Manila Standard Today reports.

There definitely need to be some changes to avoid more deaths due to flooding. But where will the city put these people? Don't they have rights? Shouldn't the city be working with them to find appropriate solutions?

3 comments:

John House said...

You're right. That's really a problem of the government on how to relocate the houses into a safe place.

Unknown said...

Hello Mr. Neuwirth,
My name is Fred Dreier and I am a journalism grad student at Columbia University. I am producing a story on squatters in the Bronx for a class, and I was hoping to bounce some ideas off of you. Would you have time to a quick chat?
My email is freddreier@gmail.com
Cheers,
FD

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