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| GK Hope Ball |
Philippine Vice President Jejomar Binay bears good news from his short visit to the United States: $350,000 raised during the Gawad Kalinga (GK) Hope Ball which will be used to fund the construction of 150 additional houses for 150 families. Binay, who is the chariman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC), added that also during the event, GK turned over 30 houses to 30 families. He is enthused that GK is now a partner of the national government in addressing the issue of shelter, and that GK would play an important role in the government's bid to address the existing backlog of 3.7 million housing units.
So the homeless gets a house awarded by the government, which they in turn would sell off and go back to squatting on privately-owned lands. It's like a sick joke, really. Politicians really ought to have a code of ethics as well as a good set of balls; those squatters need to be dealt with, with compassion and resolve, and by force if need be.
I don't have my own house, does that count?
Jon
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