The poor have the highest fertility rates and the most children to support. Over half of the population is currently below the poverty line, and almost a third lives below subsistence. Poverty is most severe in rural areas, where an increasing number of the rural poor rely on fragile resources. Population growth rates are particularly high among the rural poor.” (Cruz et al. 15) Living conditions in the Philippines are almost unbearable for most people living there. Even though they have nothing more, they wish that they could just have enough room in their houses to do what they need to do. “Slums and squatter areas are found throughout the towns and cities of the Philippines, dwelling places of tin, wood, nipa, plastic sheeting or concrete blocks built around open sewer drains and pitched anywhere a family can find space to erect a shack.” (Davis 63) Sometimes the houses will consist of ten to twelve people sleeping on the floor in a dinky room. The buildings that surround the streets of the capital city are crumbling, and are almost all considered fire hazards. Two hundred and forty-five of the capital city Manila’s 415 listed slums are considered priority areas to live. The reason that there are so many slums surrounding the cities is because it is nearly impossible to gain money to travel to a city where there are jobs. Shack communities are also
The poor have the highest fertility rates and the most children to support. Over half of the population is currently below the poverty line, and almost a third lives below subsistence. Poverty is most severe in rural areas, where an increasing number of the rural poor rely on fragile resources. Population growth rates are particularly high among the rural poor.” (Cruz et al. 15) Living conditions in the Philippines are almost unbearable for most people living there. Even though they have nothing more, they wish that they could just have enough room in their houses to do what they need to do. “Slums and squatter areas are found throughout the towns and cities of the Philippines, dwelling places of tin, wood, nipa, plastic sheeting or concrete blocks built around open sewer drains and pitched anywhere a family can find space to erect a shack.” (Davis 63) Sometimes the houses will consist of ten to twelve people sleeping on the floor in a dinky room. The buildings that surround the streets of the capital city are crumbling, and are almost all considered fire hazards. Two hundred and forty-five of the capital city Manila’s 415 listed slums are considered priority areas to live. The reason that there are so many slums surrounding the cities is because it is nearly impossible to gain money to travel to a city where there are jobs. Shack communities are also