In 2010, Carmelita, 56, and her husband, Reynaldo Mendoza, 66, were relocated to Barangay San Jose in Antipolo City, east of Manila. But a few months later, they returned to what passed for their house under a bridge along Congressional Avenue in Quezon City.

“We will die in that relocation area. We were 1,200 families uprooted from various squatter [sites]. We simply could not survive there. All of us will die of hunger,” Carmelita, cuddling one of her grandchildren, told The Manila Times right under the Culiat 2 Bridge in Bahay Toro.

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