When people ask me about Haiti I usually reply that Port-au-Prince appears to be moving quickly back toward its baseline, with a very big exception: thousands and thousands of people are still living in tents. The size of the tent villages in Port-au-Prince is still shocking. This editorial from NY Times points out the problem. It is well worth a read:
"The only thing that seems to be moving relentlessly ahead in Haiti is the weather, with punishing heat and near-daily thunderstorms settling in for the summer — and the hurricane season that just begun. Meanwhile, more than a million people are still displaced, many in tent cities with little protection from the storms. And Haiti's government has no clear strategy to get them out of the camps and into more secure shelter any time soon."
For the full NYT editorial:
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