ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The researchers are truly grateful and would like to acknowledge to all
people who helped to make the case study successful.
First, the researchers would like to thank the Almighty God who guides
them in making this research and during making their immersion.
Second, the parents who gave their full support in terms of financial
aspect that contribute a lot of the success of the study.
Third, the instructor, Mr. Johnny Bolongaita who give this case study as for
the preparation for their degree, and all the advice that he gave to the
researchers to make the research paper more relevant. The researchers would
also like to thank him for accommodating them when the researchers have
questions related to the case study.
Finally, the researchers would like to thank all of the respondents that
accommodated them during the immersion. The researchers are truly grateful to
the respondents that give relevant answers to make this case study successful.

ABSTRACT
Barangay Buhangin in Butuan City is one of the community where urban
poor were settled and being determined as an area prone to calamities like
floods. There were lot of factors affecting there continuous settlement namely:
near to city; family-kinship; couples settling agreement; near to workplace; living
since birth; renting; business; transportation; near to school; comfortability,
heritage and access of economic resources. These are the reasons why they
kept their lives in tarrying along the hazardous area for years throughout their
lives. Access to economic resources is the most applied factor by the
respondents in Barangay Buhangin Butuan City. Economic resources provides
their necessities including foods, shelter, personal needs, health kit, educational
materials, and other forms of resources that highly convinced the residents to
continuously settled in the said area. The respondents mentioned some of the
climactic events occurring on their place which are the following: calamities;
illnesses; drugs; crimes; loss of life; family trouble and illegal logging from
upland. Some of the residents are convicted to drugs and other criminal
activities. In terms of nature, an economic calamities marked a great loss and
suffered the inhabitants of Barangay Buhangin, Butuan City for it cause illnesses
and will possibly destroy lives. Difficulties frequently occurring on every place
especially if poverty comes. Despite of its insufficient security, dwellers in
Barangay Buhangin still continued to settle and they take advantage to the
calamities as they were provided by their necessity such as relief goods,
evacuation centers and other government assistance. By the issue of their
continuous settlement, possible solutions were given namely: relocation,
drainage, self-discipline and migration. By these solutions, the respondents
prefer for migration as a solution of the continuous settlement issue.

INTRODUCTION

Poverty is widely spread anywhere in the society. In urban communities, it

is the primary issues that the government still on a process of making solutions
which is hard to deduce. The environment rather contributes the dominance of its
cause where the massive job cannot penetrate within their lives. Several factors
unleashed within the minds of individuals who are looking for reasons and
scientific evidences why they kept their foot unmoved.
Cities in the developing world have grown dramatically in the past twentyfive years. Roughly 200 million people have moved, in one short generation, from
the rural districts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America into cities, while an equal
number have been born there. Most of these newly city dwellers are extremely
poor. The author elucidates the implications of this rapid growth and contaminant
poverty for politics. Unlike many scholars who have sought an all-encompassing
theory to explain the political behavior of the urban poor, Professional Nelson
emphasizes ye complex variety on the economic, social, and political
circumstances that influence this behavior. Using a broad range of case and
statistical materials from three continents, he surveys the structure and nature of
urban poverty in developing nations and highlights the importance of migration.
He then considers the means by which the urban poor try to defend and promote
their interests through political participation. Four broad patterns emerge: patronclient relationships, ethnic ties, neighborhood and occupational associations, and
political parties seeking support from e urban poor. Professor Nelson finds that
each pattern has different potential for helping as well as for co-opting the poor.
An extensive bibliography is included. (Nelson, J.M., 1979-01-01).
In the Philippines, each year hundreds of thousands of migrants come to
Metro Manila and few other urban cities. As a consequence, the urban growth
rate, at same 5%, is one of the highest in the world, and more than half of
population is living in urban area.

This volume presents the main findings of a comparative study of four poor urban
communities in the countries experiencing economic difficulties during the late
1980s: Chawama (Zambia), Cisne Dos (Ecuador), Commonwealth (the
Philippines), and Angyalfold (Hungary). The study extended a longitudinal
community panel study begun in Ecuador by using a sociological survey and
anthropological participant observations in all four communities. The case studies
revealed interesting contrasts among these communities, but they also revealed
some important similarities. In all four communities, labour was the greatest
asset of the poor, and a frequent response to declining real income was to
mobilize additional labour, even that of children. The poor are in many cases less
able to earn incomes in the present economic structure. In all these communities
housing is an important asset to cushion against severe poverty. Changes in
household structure to strengthen family support networks are both a result of
vulnerability and a strategy against it in all four communities. Strategies devised
to reduce vulnerability sometimes impose unequal burdens on household
members, especially women. Economic crisis in all these communities can exert
strengthening and weakening pressures that show that a community's ability to
cope with economic difficulties is influenced by its social capital. Four
appendixes, which contain 2 boxes and 36 tables, describe the communities,
study methodology, the analysis of poverty in this study, and community and
country statistical data. Tables A4.12 through A4.17 (pages 92-93) provide data
on the educational level of household heads or adult population for all four
communities studied. (Contains 22 boxes, 10 figures, and 8 tables.) by (Moser,
Caroline O. N.).
This case study seeks to know the different factors that affect the
continuous settlements of respondents particularly in Barangay Buhangin Butuan
City by conducting an interview. We believe this case study could lead and
contribute additional knowledge and learning.