❌
Improvements
Thank you for your feedback!
Error! Please contact site administrator!
Send
Sending...
×
  • News & Features
  • February 11, 2022 , 11:03am

‘Housing for all’ possible if PH budget realigned for social services, says urban poor group

‘Housing for all’ possible if PH budget realigned for social services, says urban poor group

By JONAS ALPASAN
Bulatlat.com

MANILA – Is housing for all but a pipe dream?

An urban poor group said that social services such as housing for the country’s poor is possible if only the Philippine government will redirect its budget to fund such. This amid housing as one of the key issues being asked of presidential candidates.

“President Duterte has been spending more and more for state forces, pork barrel, and counterinsurgency. We ask: has this helped anyone? People could have benefited from these funds if they were instead provided to ordinary folks and the homeless,” said Mimi Doringo, Kadamay secretary general.

Adequate housing, per the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, is part of the recognized right to an adequate standard of living. Both of these the Philippine government is a signatory to. The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights has even further defined the right to adequate housing as a right to live in a place where there is security, peace, and dignity.

(Read story…)

Comments (0)

Click here to cancel reply

Categories

  • An Uncomplicated Mind
  • At Ground Level
  • Community
  • Environment
  • Health
  • Notebook
  • Opinion & Analysis
  • Philippines
  • Printed Front Page
  • Round Up
  • An Uncomplicated Mind
  • At Ground Level
  • Community
  • Environment
  • Health
  • Notebook
  • Opinion & Analysis
  • Philippines
  • Printed Front Page
  • Round Up
  • An Uncomplicated Mind
  • At Ground Level
  • Community
  • Environment
  • Health
  • Notebook
  • Opinion & Analysis
  • Philippines
  • Printed Front Page
  • Round Up
  • An Uncomplicated Mind
  • At Ground Level
  • Community
  • Environment
  • Health
  • Notebook
  • Opinion & Analysis
  • Philippines
  • Printed Front Page
  • Round Up
  • Classifieds
  • Events
  • About us
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Simple Promotion
  • Classifieds
  • Events
  • About us
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Simple Promotion
  • Classifieds
  • Events
  • About us
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Simple Promotion
  • Classifieds
  • Events
  • About us
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Simple Promotion
Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, The Philippine Reporter (print edition) is a Toronto Filipino newspaper publishing since March 1989. It carries Philippine news and community news and feature stories about Filipinos in Canada and the U.S.
Powered by Software4publishers.com
Please write the reason why you are reporting this page:
Send
Sending...
Please register on Clascal system to message this user
Reset password Return registration form
Back to Login form