final housing

College of ArchitectureCentral Colleges of the Philippines

Eviction and Resettlement in NCR

Group Members

Stephanie Joy B. Delos Reyes– Team LeaderGabriel Angelo P. Encarnacion

Dari Faye M. GonzagaRachel C. Mumar

Rosalina M. PauliteMargarett P. Victoria

Submitted to:

Arch. Edgar M. Chavez

Instructor

1st Semester SY: 2012-2013

AR 530 Housing

National Capital Region (NCR) is the metropolitan region encompassing the City of Manila and its

surrounding areas in the Philippines.

It is composed of 16 cities, namely Manila, Caloocan, Las Piñas, Makati, Malabon,

Mandaluyong, Marikina, Muntinlupa, Navotas, Pasay, Pasig, Parañaque, Quezon City, San Juan, Taguig, and Valenzuela, and the Municipality of

Pateros.

What is Informal Settlers?

The National Census Office has defined Informal Settlers as “households occupying a lot

rent-free without the consent of the owner”

UDHA does not use the term “informal settlers” nor “squatters” but adopts the term

“homeless and underprivileged citizens

Based on NSO

DEMOGRAPHICS

Total population of the Philippines in 2010

Average annual rate of growth from 1990 to 2010

Total population of Metro Manila in 2010

Filipino Families in Metro Manila or National Capital Region who considered themselves as Mahirapor Poor

92.34M

2.12%

11.86%

53%

219,380

Eviction and Resettlement

WHAT IS EVICTION?

*to force out*to eject

“the expulsion of someone from the possession of land by process of law”

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/eviction

FACTORS OF EVICTION

Skyrocketing Prices of Real Estate

Increase Demand for Shopping Malls, Condominiums, Recreation, etc.

Need to Develop Urban Infrastructure

Drive towards Environmentally Balanced or “Green” Cities

MMDA’s METRO GWAPO Program

For every case of demolition, two goes unreported. This is equivalent to more than

240,000 families.

Source: Urban Poor Association

Sitio San Roque II in North Triangle, Quezon City

CASE STUDY 1:

Since year 2008 Informal Settlers from Sitio San Roque is subject for relocation.

Almost 9,000 families are subject for relocation.

September 23, 2010 the first attempt of demolition that resulted brutal violence to the

resident of San Roque and MMDA demolition team.

Ayala Land Inc. signed a joint venture with NHA in vision San Roque to be the Q.C Central Business District’ or QCBD, the city’s version of the Makati

Business District.

The QCBD is a 256-hectare project that aims to attract global investment and business interests.

This Urban Hub is called the Vertis North.

FACTORS OF EVICTION

•Property of Ayala Land Inc.

•P65 billion project investment

•Rise within the next 10 to 15 years on a 29-hectare property right beside TriNoMa mall contributed by the state-owned National Housing Authority in exchange for a share of development proceeds.

•72 percent controlled by ALI and 28 percent owned by the NHA.

•Unfortunately, this project has not yet started till the present. The land is still occupied by a hundreds of residential houses owned by informal settlers.

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This 9,000 families is planned to relocate at MOLTABAN RIZAL.

WHY PEOPLE DON’T LEAVE?According to September 23 Movement of San Roque

“first provide us with decent houses where there’s working electricity and water, and where we can find employment and

income.”

The relocation site has been criticized as being - without electricity - prone to flooding

- located on a fault line - lacking opportunities to secure a productive

- the costs of public transport from Montalban to QC are comparable to the daily earnings of most of the residents

Source: Quezon City Slum

EVICTION LEADS TO A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE IN THE QUALITY OF LIFE

WHAT IS RESETTLEMENT?

“the act or instance of settling or being settled in another place”


KASIGLAHAN VILLAGE in Montalban Rizal

“ERAP CITY”

CASE STUDY 2:


KASIGLAHAN VILLAGE

Mass housing development project during President Estrada.

55,600 units of housing for the disadvantaged affected more than 1.2 million demolition in Pasig River.

Relocation started 1999

Origins of Resettled Peoples: Pasig River, Payatas Garbage Landslide Victims, Quiapo, Valenzuela, Tatalon, and

San Roque Q.C. and etc.

http://cosca-dlsu-cwts.wikispaces.com/Kasiglahan+Village%2C+Rodriguez%2C+Rizal

KASIGLAHAN VILLAGE

It covers 25.5 acres of land in San Jose Barnagay Rodriguez, or formerly Montalban Rizal.

7.5 hectares at Kasiglahan and 18 hectares at Erap City

More than 200 farmers have lost their land and farm assetsAgricultural and forest to build housing

The location is a strategically agricultural area.

WHERE IS IT LOCATED?


SSS is the largest investor, has put 1.8 billion pesos

Landbank of the Philippines has put 700 million pesos

NSJBI laid 600 millions pesos

In 2000, closing the 10,000 units sold amount 160

Thousand.

5,000 units sold by developers in NHA relocation to serve

the poor.

FUNDING OF THE PROJECT


More than 8,000 families living here from various places in Metro

Manila demolition and disaster victims.

More than 1,000 families also live in commercial units or

individuals to buy units.

Far from the livelihood if theirs any.

Lacking classrooms and teachers

In summary, low-quality knowledge of the youth brought to cram

them in the same classroom.

In total, 80% of residents of the community does not have enough

livelihood.

CURRENT CONDITION


Normally the major flooding during the rainy season cometh, because flowing water stored in the nearby dam.

Expected for collapsing because it stands on the Marikina Valley Fault Line. Danger of cracking the land where the house stands.

In August 1998, a total of 15 feet of water and floods November 2004, also flooded some areas near the river

(approximately 6 feet deepest)

Latest flooding is the Habagat this Auguts 2012.

IT IS SAFE TO LIVE IN KV?


Kasiglahan Village is also one of the relocation site of Sitio San Roque

North Triangle in Quezon City.

An Interview with the Kasiglahan Village Residents

Relocation place: 1k2 Block 30 – 36

Origins: Sitio San Roque North Triangle in Quezon City

Size of House: 4 x 5 =20 sq.m each house

Duration of Stay: 4 months as of July 2012

Reasons of Resettlement:Ayala Land Inc. and NHA owned property to be converted

into QCCBD.

Renting System:•1st Year is free courtesy of Ayala Land Inc.•After one (1)year they are obligate to pay Php. 200.00 per month

for their houses within 25 years in order to own the house.

*Each houses have electricity but without street light.

First person: Llanelyn Vertical

Advantages:•Their new community is better that San Roque•More peaceful unlike before that with always fire.

Disadvantage:•Cost of Transportation is almost 200 pesos which is not

budget practical to her family that’s why her husband Is now unemployed.

*If she is going to ask she don’t want to back again at Sitio San Roque.

Second person: Jesusa Orosco

•She is voluntary resettled.•As of know she have a small store unlike before that she don’t

have nothing .•Security is 24/7.•Ambience is much better than Sitio San Roque, she described

Sitio SanRoque as “mabaho”, “magulo” and rivalry of land is everywhere.

Disadvantage:Cost of Transportation that’s why her husband still stay in

San Roque due to walking distance to his work.

*She also said that she don’t want to go back at San Roque.because she have her own house and an extra income.”

Third person: Remely Orosco

She said that her new community is not OK with them because it is prone to flood just like what happen last August 7, 2012 unlike at Sitio San Roque.

She also said that “ doon na ko tumanda at nagka-asawa” so she rather chose to go back at San Roque.

Forced Eviction

Distant Relocation Site

Livelihood

Frustration

Low Quality of Education

Health Care

Safety and Security

Community in Action

A Challenge to Respond

http://www.filipinowriter.com/kasiglahan-village-urban-poor-exposure

ISSUES AND CONCERNS

•Address Transportation Cost from the onset. Integrate into Resettlement

Action Plan.

•Source of Livelihood is the main consideration in resettlement plan.

•Sentimental Values and Neighborhoods attachment contribute why people of

San Roque disagree to relocation.

•KV Relocation for us somehow failed to give descent house and livelihood to

support resettled community and its somehow dangerous for people to live

because its underneath West Valley Faultline, Dams and River that cause

extreme flood incident in the community.

http://www.filipinowriter.com/kasiglahan-village-urban-poor-exposure

LESSON LEARNED:

END…. Thank you.