Housing poverty in Haiti
- 6,560 people served in FY18
- 50 volunteers hosted in FY18
- Projects: reconstruction, emergency shelter, slum upgrades, land rights
We have served more than 57,000 families in Haiti, many of them through the 2010 earthquake recovery programme.
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, with 80% of the population living on less than US$2 per day. Political instability, food shortages, unemployment, tropical storms and hurricanes have kept most Haitians locked in a cycle of poverty for generations.
Access to housing is equally desperate. Before the 2010 earthquake, Haiti already faced a severe shortage of houses. The earthquake damaged 190,000 houses, and 105,000 more were destroyed, adding to the pre-existing backlog of 300,000 houses required to meet the growing shelter needs of the country.
Of the more than 2 million affected survivors, more than 1.5 million were left homeless. Today, land tenure remains the biggest roadblock to rebuilding in Haiti. Only clear and transparent land transfer processes can ensure that long-term housing reconstruction and redevelopment can take place.
Our work tackling poverty in Haiti encompasses new home construction, community rebuilding (including retrofits, training and capacity building) and land reform advocacy.
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