By GINGGING AVELLANOSA-VALLE Relief assistance for people displaced by the fighting between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Maguindanao has come to a halt after the massacre that killed 58 people, 32 of them journalists, in the town of Ampatuan on November 23 last year.
Arroyo: Core of RP problems by Patricio P. Diaz/MindaNews GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / June 26)? ?The President herself should not become so inutile as a controversial and unfocused leader…
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
(Position paper on Balikatan's take-over of mass housing) The Kalipunay ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) commiserates with the thousands of housing creditors in the city whose housing units are now subject…
