To is from a camp away a few months ago, he, his wife and their three children in a converted House crammed the size of a small U-Haul trailer. But at least a roof protects their minds, even if a flimsy that allows the rain by casting.
"It cheap cement is made", said Mr. Darvin on fresh cracks in the walls show. He could do sound at once relieved to have found a place and sadly about what other earthquake or hurricane to it. "If you think too much about you, you lose your mind."
More than half of the Haitian January 2010 earthquake in tent cities and improvised camps have driven that, officially, reduction of the displaced persons to 680,000 from a peak of 1.5 of million, according to the International Organization for migration moved you.
What seem like a sign of progress, may warn officials, is also a cause for concern.
Very few people who leave the camp only 4.7 per cent, by the Group - estimate - did this because their homes had rebuilt or repaired. Instead be a large majority to mass evictions be been forced by the landowners or at the camps on their own escape the high crime and fraying conditions there have left.
Now, most of the former camp inhabitants are doubled up in their friends family houses scattered on random in tents and improvised housing and living in "precarious housing", which will expire, damaged or partially reduced, says the organization. Cobbled in some cases that are cinder blocks that toppled by the earthquake will be together, to walls again, only to make more unevenly and shaky as before.
Dugary St. Jean, 29, said he left a city camp in November with his pregnant wife back to Fort national, a hilly suburb East of downtown with row after row of crushed houses. In the camp, they often heard shots. You were robbed. Finally, they decided her baby, almost everywhere else is now six weeks old, safe.
She packed your tent and a friend of the family headed to the House. It is badly damaged, but space where Mr St. Jean, his wife and their child now live - spare a little, together with his mother and his nephew. "I day survive thanks to others," he said.
Giovanni Cassani, a coordinator of migration said organization, the mass departures from camps made it more difficult to track and help, people, complications of the treatment and prevention of a cholera epidemic that has killed almost 5,000 people since October. Mr Cassani said "The return to insecure conditions risk fall from the radar, because they are much more difficult to find and support". "And all of those still in the camps, they are more than 600,000 without enclosure solution, the most difficult case load."
Priscilla Phelps, a senior consultant with the Commission recovery interim Haiti, the Panel, the reconstruction plans, will develop, always money said disputes over land ownership and delays much housing, on sporadic projects, always from the ground had held. "We put all the information together," she said. "But we have no plan with numbers in it."
Only about 37 percent of the more than five billion dollars pledged last year by foreign Governments and international organizations has the Haitian Government paid was the Haiti Reconstruction Fund, non-governmental organisations or other entities, according to the United Nations.
Diplomats have complained that red tape in Haiti and the uncertain of last year's chaotic presidential election, that finally, when a popular singer, Michel Martelly has been resolved, sat down in a runoff election in March. He takes office in may, and is committed to speed things up.
The Haitian Government has in turn, said that some 10,000 non-governmental groups, succeeded with them, coordinate slowing approval.
The delays continue to have, have waves of people who left camps, often with nowhere to go. In a survey of 1,033 inhabitants from 22 dismantled camps, the Migration Group found that most of the departures, about 34 per cent accounted for evictions. But high crime rate (13.6%), poor conditions (13.9 percent) and the threat of rain or hurricanes (16.4 percent) took also a toll.
Hundreds of camps have disappeared completely; There are 1,061 now, down from a high of 1,555 in July.
One of the more striking examples - a mess of more than 300 tents and outbuildings enthroned a six-lane road precariously along the thin median - was in January after officials place in the vicinity found protects housing 180 families for transition dismantled.
The shelters plywood, painted in a kaleidoscope of pastels in an industrial zone, should be temporary, lasting three to five years. More than 100,000 such transition shelters are built, were in Haiti, but less than half of them ended have, due to the slow pace of the rubble, which always nor many roads to remove lines and suspended by the difficulties in finding land and financing.
But even in this step up from a tent, not simply rest inhabitants.
"We was moved, Yes, but the situation is the same,", said Michellange Bourdeau, 38. "in the middle of the road other us could see, but where we are now no one can see us and come to help." "We are the forgotten."
Aid groups have went a line between providing necessities such as food and water and concern worrying that continuous services would help the camps shanty towns into sustainable. Already, sport several camps barbershops, night clubs and markets.
The bearings are still often shockingly inadequate. Last week 53 members of Congress called the Obama to help administration, argued that 38 percent of the camps regularly lacked water supplies. Almost a third have no toilets, they said. Where lavatories are provided, is each divided by an average of 273 people.
And it is to stay increasingly difficult in the camps, whether because people are forced away from the country, or because she tugged by the effectiveness of the home are. Or both.
If a warehouse in January were expelled from Marie Nicoles meus and their four children, they moved walls in a mud walled hut that her brother had built for his own family.
It is collection strewn trail a garbage, but also with mosquito swarms, floods, oppressive heat and beengten together with a friend and her baby, Mrs meus takes comfort close to the relatives.
"I am concerned," she said of the coming storms of the rainy season. "But I have faith in God."
Vladimir Laguerre contributed reporting.
