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Mujinga (
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15:07, 29 November 2021 (UTC)reply
Do the sources say why the shanties were called barong-barong? Looks like
barong means either a weapon or a type of clothing, I don't see the semantic connection.
britannica just says "the barong-barong, a makeshift shack built of salvaged materials (flattened tin cans, scrap lumber, cartons, or billboards) that is common in the poor areas" ... a
dictionary definition does not expand on it either but indeed
barong seems to mean knife.
Mujinga (
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17:53, 16 December 2021 (UTC)reply
After World War II, many people were left homeless in the Philippines and they built makeshift houses called "barong-barong" on abandoned private land. I could not find this information in the EB source, all I saw was, "the barong-barong, a makeshift shack built of salvaged materials".
ah yes so you've read the britannica entry hehe. good point on the first part of the sentence needing another citation, I'll look into that but have mislaid my charger cable so this might be my last edit for today
Mujinga (
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18:13, 16 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Resistance to evictions fed into the opposition to the Marcos dictatorship and resulted in the 1986 People Power Revolution. Which page of the source is this on?
i am summarising page 79, especially this bit: "The urban poor were inevitably drawn into the multi-ideological alliances that were formed after 1983. They became a considerable constituency of such groups as Bayan, Bandila and the Lakas ng Sambayanan, which organized popular mobilizations during this period of intense political upheaval before the change of government in 1986."
Mujinga (
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01:53, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Source 21 is a pretty biased editorial, is there a more neutral source?
i think it was an ok source just for showing the events happened, but fortunately a better source was available so I've switched it out
Mujinga (
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02:18, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Homelessness is a pressing issue for the Philippines - This is an expression of a POV, I would either remove that statement or attribute it.
Of the country's population of about 106 million, an estimated 4.5 million are homeless according to the Philippine Statistics Authority. Does the PSA provide figures for the precise category of squatters/informal dwellers? I'm not sure if there is a distinction between homeless people and squatters.
indicating the need for government to cooperate with stakeholders to provide affordable housing to all. This sounds like POV press release speak to me, what do you think? Is there a neutral way to rephrase the idea?
Legal section: Do you think this should mention the 1975 Marcos decree as the first sentence? It would make the section more complete but I'm not sure since the decree is already mentioned in "history".
The Marcos decree criminalizing squatting was annulled by the Anti-Squatting Law Repeal Act of 1997 (RA 8368). This confuses me. If the Marcos decree was annulled, wouldn't that mean squatting was legal? Which would conflict with the 1992 law criminalizing it? --
Cerebellum (
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17:04, 13 December 2021 (UTC)reply
I've rejigged it a bit, and whilst I'm happy to be corrected by someone who knows more, after reading into it a bit I think that the 1992 law superseded the dictator's decree and worked in a different way to criminalize squatting, then the 1997 act was repealing the decree as part of constitutional cleanup. Squatting was never made legal since the 1992 law was in force whilst the decree was disregarded and then later annulled. Hope that makes sense!
Mujinga (
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09:08, 17 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Copied content from Community Mortgage Program
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The Community Mortgage Program (CMP) was set up following the
People Power Revolution (EDSA I) of 1988.[1]: 56–7 It aims to help low-income families who are
squatting to find secure tenure by establishing community associations to buy land, to set up infrastructure and to build houses.[1]
Out of the country's population of about 106 million, an estimated 4.5 million were homeless according to the Philippine Statistics Authority; of these 3 million were in the capital
Manila.[1][2]