1.Introduction.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Significance and Objectives of the Book.- 1.3 Typhoon Ketsana and the Philippine PDR Legislation -- 1.4  The PDRRMA and Post-Disaster Recovery.- 1.5 PDRRMA’s PDR Standards.- 1.6 Evaluating Typhoon Ketsana Victims’ PDR.- 1.7 Theoretical Orientation of the book.- 1.7.1 Areas of “Success” and “Failure” in PDR Projects.- 1.7.2 Normative Pluralism and Philippine PDR System.- 1.7.2.1 Pluralism in State Laws.- 1.7.2.2 Pluralism in Informal Normative Orders.- 1.7.3 Cultural Normative Orders.- 1.7.4 Corrupt Cultural Normative Orders.- 1.8 The Case Study.- 1.9A The Research Site.- 1.9.1 A Brief History of Southville Rodriguez Relocation Site -- 1.9.2 Southville Rodriguez as a Resettlement.- 1.9.3 The Roadmap of the Book.- List of References.- 2.Normative Pluralism in Philippine Resettlement System. 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Legal Pluralism and the Polycentric Implementation of the DDRM.- 2.3 Plurality of Real Estate Rules and Bureaucratic Burdens.- 2.4 Laws Governing Relocation and Housing.- 3.1 Post-Disaster Management in the Philippines: An Overview.- 3.2 The Disaster Risk Reduction Management Act and Legal Pluralism.- 3.3 Philippine Laws Affecting Post-Disaster Recovery.- 3.4 Major Social Rules Affecting Post-Disaster Recovery.- 3.5 Summary.- List of References.- 4.Suitability and Accessibility of the Relocation Site.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Determining the Suitability of the Relocation Site -- 4.3 Laws Governing Suitability of Relocation and Housing.- 4.4 The UDHA and the Role of the LGU in Site Selection.- 4.5 Hegemonic Powers of Private Developers in Site Selection.- 4.6 Laws on Accessibility.- 4.7 Evaluating the Site Suitability and Accessibility of Southville Rodriguez.- 4.8 Access in Southville Rodriguez.- 4.9 Summary.- List of References.- 5.Security of Tenure, Affordability, and Habitability.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Security of Tenure.- 5.3 Security of Tenure in Southville Rodriguez Relocation.- 5.4 Habitability.- 5.5 Affordability.- 5.6 Summary.- 6.Jobs and Livelihood Program in the Resettlement Area.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2  Case: The Story of Aling Bettyline and Family -- 6.3 Plurality of Laws on Employment and Livelihood in Relocation.- 6.4 Responsibility for Providing Employment and Livelihood.- 6.5 Kanya-Kanya Attitude on Jobs and Livelihood.- 6.5.1 Availability of Jobs and Livelihood in the Relocation.- 6.6 Summary.- List of References -- 7 Adequacy of  Social Facilities and Services.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Laws on Social Services in Relocation Areas -- 7.3 The Social Services Situation in Southville Rodriguez.- 7.3.1 Electricity.- 7.3.2 Water Facility.- 7.3.3 Educational and Religious Facilities.- 7.4 Summary.- List of References.- 8.Summaries, Overall Conclusion, and Recommendations.- 8.1 Introduction.- 8.2 Chapter Summaries.- 8.3 Overall Conclusion.- 8.4 Recommendations.This book looks at how the multiplicity of formal and informal normative systems that administer the post-disaster recovery objectives of the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010 has resulted in inadequate housing and relocation as well as greater suffering to typhoon victims. Using the sociological and normative pluralist perspectives and the case study method, it evaluates the level of conformity of the government resettlement program given to Typhoon Ketsana victims to the legal standards. It highlights the complex and competing legal and cultural normative regimes of various stakeholders and public agencies, rigid regulation in the state’s real estate bureaucracy and the unscrupulous involvement of some powerful and ‘corrupt’ real estate developers and housing groups, as largely contributing to the project’s significant deviation from the law’s proactive rehabilitation goals. It aims to promote the sociological and socio-legal frameworks in post-disaster research and invites policymakers to enact a comprehensive post-disaster management law and create a one-stop disaster management agency to minimize the negative unintended effects caused by normative pluralism in post-disaster resettlement projects.