Spanning 24 of Marawi’s 96 villages, it hosted much of the city residents’ business establishments and cultural heritage sites. Tent citiesOf the 66,000 displaced persons listed by Ocha-Philippines, at least 51,750 are home-based “bakwit,” or evacuees staying with their relatives. As many as 3,500 internally displaced persons (IDPs) continue to languish in “tent cities,” and 10,800 others are staying in transitional shelters. Those staying in tent cities yearn to return to their ruined homes, or to be moved to decent transitional sites. Del Rosario said the reconstruction and rehabilitation of Marawi “can be completed by December 2021,” or half a year before the Duterte administration ends.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 18, 2019 21:33 UTC