{
  "audience": "Filipino public",
  "canonical_url": "https://busisi.org/research/multipurpose-buildings/",
  "data_cutoff": "2026-01-22",
  "deck": "A reproducible count of multipurpose-building records, what their titles and statuses say, and what the available evidence still cannot prove.",
  "editorial_status": "ready",
  "headline": "How many multipurpose buildings are being built?",
  "language": "en-PH",
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "sections": [
    {
      "claim_ids": [
        "mpb-total-records",
        "mpb-ongoing",
        "mpb-active-pipeline"
      ],
      "copy": [
        "5,842 conservatively classified records are marked On-Going.",
        "The wider active pipeline contains 7,024 records when For Procurement and Not Yet Started are included.",
        "These are source records and source-reported statuses, not an independent count of physical buildings or active construction sites."
      ],
      "heading": "The source reports a large active pipeline",
      "id": "direct-answer",
      "limitation_ids": [
        "record-count",
        "source-status",
        "classifier-omissions"
      ],
      "narration_eligible": true,
      "section_type": "finding",
      "source_ids": [
        "dpwh-delivery-snapshot-2026-01-22"
      ],
      "visual_refs": [
        "chart_data.status"
      ]
    },
    {
      "claim_ids": [
        "mpb-existing-work-wording"
      ],
      "copy": [
        "2,812 active titles explicitly describe completion, a later phase, repair, improvement, replacement, or reconstruction.",
        "A title that only says construction does not establish that the structure is new."
      ],
      "heading": "Many titles describe work on an existing or partly built asset",
      "id": "work-type",
      "limitation_ids": [
        "record-count",
        "classifier-omissions"
      ],
      "narration_eligible": true,
      "section_type": "finding",
      "source_ids": [
        "dpwh-delivery-snapshot-2026-01-22"
      ],
      "visual_refs": [
        "chart_data.work_types"
      ]
    },
    {
      "claim_ids": [
        "mpb-active-pipeline",
        "mpb-ongoing"
      ],
      "copy": [
        "Region totals reconcile to the national classified result.",
        "District-office labels reproduce the source, while city coverage is partial because locality names are embedded in project titles."
      ],
      "heading": "The records can be compared by region, district-office label, and some city names",
      "id": "location",
      "limitation_ids": [
        "location-coverage",
        "district-labels"
      ],
      "narration_eligible": true,
      "section_type": "finding",
      "source_ids": [
        "dpwh-delivery-snapshot-2026-01-22"
      ],
      "visual_refs": [
        "chart_data.regions",
        "chart_data.district_offices",
        "chart_data.explicit_cities"
      ]
    },
    {
      "claim_ids": [
        "mpb-active-budget",
        "mpb-positive-active-budget"
      ],
      "copy": [
        "The package provides the recorded active budget and price distribution for records with a positive amount.",
        "A fair comparison still needs floor area, specifications, work scope, award, payment, final cost, year, and location."
      ],
      "heading": "Recorded amounts describe scale, not whether a project is fairly priced",
      "id": "pricing",
      "limitation_ids": [
        "budget-meaning"
      ],
      "narration_eligible": true,
      "section_type": "finding",
      "source_ids": [
        "dpwh-delivery-snapshot-2026-01-22"
      ],
      "visual_refs": [
        "chart_data.pricing",
        "project_examples.largest_active_recorded_budgets"
      ]
    },
    {
      "claim_ids": [
        "mpb-prior-coordinate-candidates"
      ],
      "copy": [
        "31 active records share an exact coordinate with a completed comparison record.",
        "This is a bounded review queue. It does not prove duplication, a ghost project, or wrongdoing."
      ],
      "heading": "Some exact-coordinate matches need a closer look",
      "id": "coordinate-review",
      "limitation_ids": [
        "coordinate-reuse"
      ],
      "narration_eligible": false,
      "section_type": "investigation_lead",
      "source_ids": [
        "dpwh-delivery-snapshot-2026-01-22"
      ],
      "visual_refs": [
        "chart_data.evidence",
        "project_examples.prior_coordinate_candidates"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "source_ids": [
    "dpwh-delivery-snapshot-2026-01-22"
  ],
  "story_id": "multipurpose-buildings-2026",
  "version": 2
}