Title: Slums in Metro Manila - Wikipedia
Headings: Slums in Metro Manila
Slums in Metro Manila
Contents
Locations of slums
City of Manila
Tondo
San Andres
Quezon City
Batasan Hills
Payatas
Bagong Silangan
Makati
Conditions within slums
Population
Physical location and composition
Access to utilities
Health disparities
Environmental impact
Legality
Activism and organizing
Root causes
See also
References

Content: When the home Smokey Mountain rubbish dump in Tondo was closed by the government in 1995, many rubbish scavengers migrated to the Payatas dump site, where another large scavenging community arose. The population of Payatas is notoriously difficult to estimate. The official census states the population at almost 120,000 people (Census, 2010), but academic source suggest the real population to be closer to 500,000 (Gaillard and Cadag, 2009). In the year 2000, a landslide at the Payatas dump killed over three hundred scavengers. This official figure, though, is also likely highly underestimated with eyewitnesses suggesting the real death toll is closer to 1,000. Bagong Silangan
Main article: Bagong Silangan
Bagong Silangan is infamous as a squatters' area after street dwellers from India and China were relocated here from the 1970s onwards. The name of the barangay came from bagong silang, the Tagalog word for "newborn". The namesake of the barangay was meant to signify "a new hope" for most of its residents who were originally relocated from slum areas in Tondo in Manila, Commonwealth in Quezon City, and San Juan. Makati
West Rembo suffers from re-occurring brownouts and is vulnerable to severe weather catastrophes.