News

Ilang tumiwalag sa Kadamay, 'handang bayaran' ang inokupang pabahay

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 16 08:34 PM

Batid ng mga kumalas na miyembro na kailangan nilang bayaran ang buwanang hulog para sa mga pabahay na kanilang inokupa noong nakaraang taon. Read more »

P300 fee per rally? Some Kadamay members leave group over alleged extortion

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 16 04:45 PM

Some members of urban poor group Kadamay on Saturday said they have decided to "break away," alleging extortion against the organization whose members had illegally occupied state housing units near Metro Manila. Read more »

Kadamay, 'binantayan' lang ang mga pabahay sa Rizal

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 15 01:42 PM

Iginiit ng grupong Kadamay na wala silang balak okupahin ang mga pabahay sa Rodriguez, Rizal, sa kabila ng pagsugod ng daan-daan nilang miyembro sa komunidad noong Miyerkoles. Read more »

JV Ejercito to Kadamay: No such thing as free housing

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 15 10:44 AM

HINDI PWEDE ANG LIBRE: The government cannot give away houses for free, Senate Housing Committee Chief JV Ejercito said Friday, days after members of urban poor group Kadamay tried to illegally occupy housing units in Rizal. Read more »

Ejercito appeals to Kadamay members to stop trespassing

Vivienne Gulla,, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 15 12:43 AM

Ejercito appealed to Kadamay members to wait for the passage of the measure seeking to address issues on housing projects, instead of trespassing. Read more »

Duterte hits Kadamay for housing takeover try, warns of violent dispersal

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 14 07:17 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday slammed urban poor group Kadamay after its members attempted to occupy homes in Rodriguez, Rizal yesterday. Read more »

'Anarchy': Ejercito hits Kadamay for attempt to take over Rizal housing units

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 14 05:49 PM

Senate Housing Committee chair JV Ejercito on Thursday slammed urban poor group Kadamay for attempting to occupy another housing project intended for soldiers and police officers.    Read more »

Palace: Duterte won’t allow another Kadamay takeover

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 14 12:36 PM

Malacañang on Thursday said President Rodrigo Duterte will not allow another takeover by Kadamay of idle housing units intended for police and soldiers, after members of the urban poor group attempted but failed to occupy homes in Rodriguez, Rizal yesterday. Read more »

NHA: 55,000 gov't housing units remain unoccupied nationwide

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 14 11:18 AM

Some 55,000 houses built by the Aquino administration for low-salaried government workers and poor families remain unoccupied across the country, an official said Thursday, after a militant group attempted to occupy an allegedly stagnant housing project.    Read more »

Pabahay para sa mga pulis, sundalo inokupa ng Kadamay

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 13 09:00 PM

RODRIGUEZ, Rizal - Inokupa ng nasa 500 miyembro ng Kadamay urban poor group ang isang housing project para sa mga sundalo at pulis sa Barangay San Isidro sa bayan na ito, Miyerkoles.    Read more »

SILIPIN: P17-M rehab plan para sa Estero de Magdalena

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 12 10:38 PM

Ayon sa Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission, P17 milyon ang pondong inilaan ng gobyerno para sa isang taong rehabilitasyon ng Estero de Magdalena. Read more »

'We have nowhere': South Africa's landless vent their fury

Beatrice Debut, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 08 12:31 PM

In the first four months of the year, the city of Cape Town has been gripped by a wave of protests over land. The city's anti-land invasion squad has responded robustly, destroying illegal structures and illicit demarcation markers erected on squatted land. Read more »

ALAMIN: Sino-sino ang binibigyan ng pabahay ng NHA?

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 07 06:28 PM

Kabilang sa mga pagsubok na kinakaharap ng gobyerno ang pagdami ng pamilyang Pilipino na walang sariling tirahan.   Read more »

With community loans, Manila slum dwellers build homes

Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Updated as of Jun 07 11:16 AM

QUEZON CITY, Philippines - Anabelle Elmedo lived for years with her family of six in an informal settlement in Quezon City in the Philippines, and had few worries beyond the daily grind, until she received an eviction notice. Read more »

Kalidad ng mga pabahay ng NHA, inusisa sa Senado

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 01 12:40 AM

Mga kontraktor ang sumalang sa ikalawang pagdinig ng Senado hinggil sa mga proyektong pabahay ng National Housing Authority para sa mga biktima ng kalamidad. Read more »

NHA to redesign houses on stilts for Zamboanga siege refugees

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 29 03:18 PM

The National Housing Authority will redesign the controversial houses on stilts for the refugees of the 2013 Zamboanga siege. Read more »

Urban poor group presses gov't on housing

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 29 08:46 AM

Hundreds of members of the urban poor group Kadamay marched in Bulacan on Tuesday to press for the award of government housing units to the homeless. Read more »

Housing units to be built not enough for displaced Marawi residents

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 25 12:33 AM

A year and a day after the start of the Marawi siege, Task Force Bangon Marawi admitted it has yet to finalize its plans to reconstruct the war-torn city. Read more »

1,500 bahay, ipatatayo ng UN-Habitat sa Marawi

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 24 09:55 PM

May 1,500 housing unit ang ipatatayo ng United Nations Human Settlements Programme para sa mga nawalan ng tirahan matapos ang limang buwang bakbakan sa Marawi City. Read more »

Kalidad ng pabahay sa mga nasalanta ng bagyo, kinuwestiyon

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 22 11:46 PM

Nauna nang isiniwalat sa dokumentaryo ng "Failon Ngayon" ang mga problema sa pabahay.  Read more »