In this article
it discusses the misuse of T-homes given to families in Haitis. It states that 34 of the 84 families who received temporary houses didn’t live
in them, and that 11 families got two houses from two different humanitarian
organizations. The emergency shelters distributed around the town were not
passed out fairly. In the article also states that a farmer, her husband and
six children used to live in a four-room concrete home that was destroyed
during the earthquake in Haiti, whose epicentre lies about 25 kilometres away. The
family is now cramming into a shack made of wood, cloth and plastic. These are
not fit for any family let alone a family of six. Making many T-shelters for
these families are beneficial but is still not fit to live in. Many shelters in
America are not worse than these. There were 300,000 people in need of shelter
following the earthquake in Haiti. In order to get a T-shelter families had to
prove that they owned land or had a long-term lease. Moreover, over two-thirds
of the post-quake refugee families-some 200,000 families were renters, meaning
they were not eligible for the structures.
On the other hand, the shelters distributed
around were not passed out fairly; many families were given homes and were not staying
in them. This made it difficult for the families that were turned down when
trying to get a home. People that didn’t need shelters still got shelters,
which shows us how society put people in groups according to what they have.
Many families did not understand the matter of how they could get a home and
was not given any information. In addition to this, not knowing the region, the
researchers were fooled by people who pretended that abandoned, destroyed homes
belonged to them. It was very possible that some people were not honest when
signing up for the homes.
http://www.globalissues.org/news/2012/03/15/13026
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