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Increase of population in Metro Manila causes large demand of residential land and expansion of squatter or slum areas. There were 14,819ha of residential land in 1986 and 66.8% of transformable land in 1986 changed into built-up area and acomodated 2,450 thousand during 1986 to 1996. Metro Manila should have more 3,703 thousand until 2015 and it means disapperance of agricultural land, forest, grassland and other open space. It causes quite serious environmental problems, and so housing policy should be changed from previous one to planned medium or high rising apartments or flats as soon as possible.
