Urban Stories Ch1

December 12, 2024

IBON’s Urban Stories is a cursory scoping of specific urbanization issues, such as land reclamation and conversion, demolition of slums and remaining farms, and overall displacement of the poor. Using life stories as methodology, the main aims of the IBON Urban Stories are: to highlight how the urban population are affected and how they deal with these issues; to identify the policies that facilitate these issues; to reveal who actually benefits from so-called urban development; and to show how specific citizens campaigns have amplified and confronted these issues. The main basis for IBON’s choice of which stories to highlight is that the communities have ongoing resistance and struggles and are reaching out for multisectoral support.

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NEWS ANALYSIS

The nation needs leaders that genuinely care about the worsening welfare of Filipino citizens and are willing to push radical and meaningful measures that will really create better-quality jobs and higher incomes.

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