to celebrate International Women’s Day: to take over public housing units already overgrown with weeds and grass, neglected and idle for years, some dilapidated. No one cared about these houses before members of the urban poor took these over. Meanwhile, the urban poor are happy enough, just to be able to call these houses their new homes. These same houses are the ones the urban poor of Bulacan have taken over. These same houses, called hellish and substandard, decrepit and neglected, unfit for humans, these are the houses that the urban poor are wholeheartedly willing to commit to.

Source: Manila Times March 22, 2017 16:30 UTC