Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 07/2011

Post-quake Haiti: Security Depends on Resettlement and Development

June 2011

International Crisis Group

Abstract

A year and a half after the Western Hemisphere’s deadliest earthquake devastated Haiti, 650,000 victims still wait for permanent housing in more than 1,000 unstable emergency camps dotting Port-au-Prince. The first storms of the 2011 hurricane season have flooded 30 camps, forcing tent dwellers to flee and killing 28 persons nationally.