45 It ruins our budget. Sometimes we have no choice but to use our child’s allowance, and we have no way of replacing it. Where do we get the money?214 Workers in urban areas are not spared. Ernesto Cruz, president of the National Confederation of Transport Workers Union, narrated that jeepney drivers in urban areas who used to work for twelve to fourteen hours a day could now only work for a few hours in the morning during the summer months. The intense heat, compounded by heavy traffic and vehicle emissions, makes it too dangerous to work.215 Meanwhile, they cannot ply their routes during heavy rains because floodwaters would damage their engines, making “heat and rain … both enemies.”216 These workers, who could barely make enough to sustain a family of five even when they were driving twelve-hour shifts, are left with almost nothing to feed their families. Indubitably, the impacts of climate change rob individuals and communities of their ability to make a living. It places a heavy burden on workers across industries who face job insecurity, lower income, poor working conditions, and increased poverty. vi. Right to Adequate Housing The right to housing is enshrined in the ICESCR as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living.217 The CESCR clarifies that the right to housing “should not be interpreted in a narrow or restrictive sense which equates it with, for example, the shelter provided by merely having a roof over one’s head or views shelter exclusively as a commodity. Rather it should be seen as the right to live somewhere in security, peace and dignity.”218 Thus, adequate housing should include: legal security of tenure; availability of services, materials, facilities and infrastructure; affordability; habitability; accessibility; location; and cultural adequacy.219 Climate change denies people of all of these. Particularly, the IPCC has stated that coastal settlements and 214 T.S.N. of the First Inquiry Hearing dated 27-28 March 2018, at 113. 215 Id. at 61. 216 Id. at 163. 217 ICESCR, supra note 153, art. 11 (1). 218 United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural, General Comment No. 4: The Right to Adequate Housing (Article 11 (1) of the Covenant), E/1992/23 (Dec. 13, 1991). 219 Id.