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LIRLAP
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Project
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The case study cities
Metro Manila
number, 104,000 families are occupying areas identified as danger zones, such as railroad tracks, garbage dumps, canals, rivers and creeks and other flood-prone areas. Many of these ISFs also live in houses [...] National Capital Region of the country, Metro Manila, the largest and fastest growing metropolitan area in the Philippines. The metropolitan region has for decades attracted migrants from the provinces [...] disaster-driven upgrading is currently still a low priority of planning in the Philippines. The focus is on finding large scale, lasting solutions to this perennial problem, yet these often entail moving …