Decree 900 transferred uncultivated land to landless peasants. The lower class predominantly consists of rural subsistence farmers and landless peasants. Another 4,500 landless peasants were allocated three. Previously, almost any male could join and soldiers were mostly poor, landless and illiterate peasants. The KPP was against land reform (distribution of property to landless peasants). Foreclosure reduced them to the status of sharecroppers or landless laborers. During his presidency, Quezon tackled the problem of landless peasants in the countryside. He found that even landless young farmworkers were soon able to obtain their own farms. Land reforms provided only a limited solution for the millions of Philippine landless farmers. It limited the powers of the governor and restored suffrage rights to landless freemen. In addition, minorities may also be immigrant, indigenous or landless nomadic communities. He was keen to create model housing and distribute smallholdings for the landless. Land reforms to assist landless people. Some of their landless members intermarried with other ethnic groups and became assimilated. Many landless Indians found wage labor on ranches.