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Alan Codizar?s family noticed the smell after two months inside their house in Catalunan Grande, a village about five kilometers from downtown Davao. ?We thought it was the dog,? recalled Codizar?s wife Lourdes, ?So, we moved the doghouse somewhere else but still the smell lingered.? Later, they opened the sewage at the back of the house and noticed that the pipes were leaking. The house was one of the low cost housing units of the South Villa Heights 2 awarded to them in 1994 under the Unified Home Lending Program (UHLP). But they only assumed it two years ago because the area did not have an access road and it was very far from their place of work. When they took over, the one-room 90-sq. meter house looked like an empty matchbox. They put up jalousies on the windows, installed the doors and the tiles on the floors and later, the sewage pipes. ?There were cracks even at the ceiling,? Lourdes said, ?We can?t even nail something on the wall without feeling that the house would crumble.? Read on