So let's work hard to buy a home.'" Lalaine Igua, who is in her late sixties, has been living in Manila North Cemetery since 1976. She said her family did not have access to electricity ...

Nearly half of Filipino households (approximately 13.2 million) consider themselves poor consider themselves poor, according ...

then Malate in Manila is a fitting option. It’s one of the busiest and more popular districts of the capital city, but it still maintains a sense of calm in its residential areas. Living in Malate ...

The final resting places for the most affluent in Manila have become a last resort for the city’s poorest looking for a home.

The makeshift house of Jocelyn De Los Santos sits atop a mausoleum in Manila North Cemetery ... for the city’s poorest looking for free living quarters. De Los Santos, 40, grew up in the ...