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The right to adequate housing includes the right the security of tenure to one’s housing unit and the right against eviction. It also requires that the low-cost housing for disaster victims must be affordable and commensurate with the income of the urban poor. Above all, the housing units must be habitable and resilient to disasters. This chapter examined how these rights are protected and implemented in the relocation and housing program of Typhoon Ketsana victims in Southville Rodriguez Housing Project (SRHP) in Rodriguez, Rizal, in accordance with the 2010 Philippine Disaster Risk Management Act (PDRRMA) and related laws. It also examined how the informal connections and rules between accredited developers and the National Housing Authority (NHA) and other housing agencies influenced the implementation of the official laws on post-disaster relocation and housing. It explained why the official laws, which were intended to build affordable and habitable homes for disaster victims with occupants enjoying the right to security of tenure, turned out to be unaffordable and unfit for human occupation due to their weak construction materials, defects, and soil erosion.
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This page is a summary of: Security of Tenure, Affordability, and Habitability, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-5074-9_6.
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