Just adaptation? Generating new vulnerabilities and shaping adaptive capacities through the politics of climate-related resettlement in a Philippine coastal city

•Climate-related resettlement is an exercise in political power.•Climate resilient housing was restricted to those with political connections.•Poorer households received lower quality housing and services.•Procedural injustice generated social cleavages.•Resettlement reproduces vulnerability, heightens inequality and can be maladaptive.