A video posted on Facebook is claiming that Sen. Risa Hontiveros wants condominiums built in areas where poor people live. This needs context.
Posted on Nov. 17, 2024, the video continues to gain interactions and was submitted for verification by a reader through the VERA Files’ Messenger Tip Line.
The spliced footage shows Hontiveros debating with Sen. Cynthia Villar about the Pambansang Pabahay Para sa Pilipino (4PH) Program, and the text overlaid on the video read:
“HontiVirus Insisted To Build Condo On The Land Where the Poor And Unfortunate
Situated”;
“Ano Kaya Meron, Dahil Ki’Kita Sa Contractor, Supal’pal si Risa Kay Madam Sen. Cynthia Villar.
(What’s going on? Because she’ll earn from the contractor. Madam Sen. Cynthia Villar takes down Risa.)”
A portion of the manipulated footage highlighted Villar’s remark to insinuate that Hontiveros would be making money from the contractors thus her insistence on building condominiums for the poor.
“Why will you insist on building condominium? Dahil kikita ka do’n sa contractor ng condominium, na may porsyento ka doon kaya pinag-i-insist mo ‘yung condominium?”
(Because you’ll earn from the contractor of the condominium? Because you’ll get a percentage from that, so you keep on insisting on the condominium?)
Nowhere in the edited video is there a clip of Hontiveros identifying a specific location where poor folks live that would be allotted for condominiums.
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