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>The Red Cross said it has to scale back its housing plans because it couldn't acquire the rights to land. No homes will be built. The article's second half sp
by superkuh 8y ago
>The Red Cross said it has to scale back its housing plans because it couldn't acquire the rights to land. No homes will be built.
The article's second half spends most of it's time describing the unreported management overhead that probably has to do with trying to navigate the infeasibly complex and ill-defined land ownership and transfer system of Hati's government.
- senectus1 8y agointeresting and tbh completely understandable. They would have been better off setting up a "no/low" interest loan system and building a supply line that caters to it.
- solotronics 8y agoThis makes sense that if a country has a hard time building their own infrastructure it must be exponentially harder for outsiders to do so. Scams, graft, and corruption abound. Sad!
- Synaesthesia 8y agoSo hard that only six houses were built ... ?
- shard972 8y agoAnd yet the clinton foundation had no issue building a 5 star hotel. Maybe they could have just asked them for some help dealing with the government? Nah not worth it, it's just half a billion.
- makomk 8y agoApparently plenty of people had no trouble building 5 star hotels: https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-11-25/does-haiti-really-need-luxury-hotels https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-11-25/does-haiti-really-nee... Maybe the Haitian government was simply more open to hotel-building than home-building?