Land Titles & the Hidden History of Ownership | Episode 1

Описание: Have you ever wondered why land disputes in the Philippines never seem to end?

Families fight over the same property for decades… courtrooms overflow with unresolved cases… and land ownership feels complicated — even risky.

This is Episode One of our series: Land Titles and the Hidden History of Ownership.

In this episode, we uncover the story of how land was controlled, redefined, and corrupted — from the Spanish haciendas, to the American Torrens system, to the conflicts that rage today.

What you’ll learn in this video:
🔹 The Spanish hacienda system and how it shaped inequality
🔹 The American Torrens Title system — promise vs. reality
🔹 Why overlapping titles, fake documents, and lost records persist
🔹 The truth about Tax Declarations vs. Land Titles
🔹 Real-world case studies: Hacienda Luisita, Taguig–Makati boundary dispute, Mangyan ancestral domains
🔹 How millions of parcels remain untitled today
🔹 Why land disputes take decades to resolve

This is not just about paperwork — it’s about people’s lives, livelihoods, and futures.

📌 Watch until the end for the teaser to Episode 2, where we’ll explore zoning, politics, and how farmland became billion-peso real estate empires.

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