Camp Grace Village, Carrefour municipality, Port-au-Prince. © Amnesty International
Three years after the Haiti earthquake the housing situation in the country is nothing short of catastrophic. Hundreds of thousands of people are still living in fragile shelters.
Amnesty International is urging the authorities and the international community to make housing a priority for Haiti reconstruction efforts.
The January 12, 2010 earthquake left more than 200,000 people dead and some 2.3 million homeless. More than 350,000 people currently live in 496 camps across the country. Living conditions in the makeshift camps are worsening – with severe lack of access to water, sanitation and waste disposal – all of which have contributed to the spread of infectious diseases such as cholera.