Informal Settlers

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Define as the residential areas where a group of
housing units has been constructed on land to
which the occupant have no legal claim or which
they occupy illegally
 Where are informal settlers located?

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Informal settlement exist all over
the City of Tacloban
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Most of the informal settlements are
located along shorelines and
riverbanks
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 Manila Bay
Informal Settlers
 Causes of
Informal Settlers:

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Population Growth
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Rural-Urban Migration
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Lack of Affordable Housing
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Weak Governance
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Low paid Work
 What are the impacts of Informal
Settlement?
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Pollution
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Deforestation
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Flooding
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Waste of Agricultural lands
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 Solutions:
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The government should acquire sufficient land in the
municipalities situated along the alignment of the planned
circumferential road when it is affordable.
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Sustainable efforts permanently improve living conditions; more
importantly, they start a long term development process.
Therefore,it is requested to identify the local’s needs, voice their
demands, and help them organize themselves so as to improve
their livelihood with the help of the financial, technical, and
human resources offered by development projects, as well
as their own.