After being expelled from a camp of tents a few months ago, he, his wife and their three children were crammed into a reconstructed house the size of a small U-Haul trailer. But at least a roof is home to the head, even if a fragile which allows rain flowing through.
"It is made of cheap cement", Mr. Darvin said, pointing to fresh cracks in the walls. It sounded relieved both have found a place and angry on what another earthquake or hurricane could do to it. "If you think too much about it, you lose your mind."
More than half of Haitians sank into the cities of tents and makeshift camps by the earthquake of January 2010 moved them, officially demolishes the population moved to 680 000 after a peak of 1.5 million people, according to the International Organization for migration.
But what may appear as a clear sign of progress, warn officials, is also a matter of concern.
Very few people who have left the camps - only 4.7%, by estimation of the Group - did so because their homes had been rebuilt or repaired. Instead, the vast majority appear have been expelled through expulsions by the owners, or have left the camps on their own to escape the high crime and fraying conditions.
Now, most of the former camps population is doubled in friends homes of families, scattered randomly in tents and improvised housing or living in "housing poor" who is ill, damaged or partly is collapsed, the Organization says. In some cases, the ash blocks were overthrown by the earthquake are being together to make the walls once more, only more unevenly and flawed than before.
Dugary-Saint-Jean, 29, said he left a camp in downtown in November with his pregnant wife to return to Fort National, a hilly neighborhood is downtown with row after row of houses crumble. At the camp, they were often heard shots. They have been robbed. Finally, they decided their baby, now 6 weeks, would be safer almost anywhere elsewhere.
They packed their tent and headed to the House of a friend of the family. It is heavily damaged but has a small detached room where now live Mr. St-Jean, his wife and their baby - with his mother and his nephew. "I survive day after day with others," said.
Giovanni Cassani, a coordinator of the Organization of migration, said the departures in massive camps made more difficult to follow and help the people, which complicates the treatment and prevention of a cholera epidemic that killed about 5,000 people since October. "Those returning to the risk of dangerous conditions down radar, because they are much more difficult to find and help,", said Mr. Cassani. "And all persons still in camps, the more than 600 000 and any housing solution, they are more difficult work.".
Priscilla Phelps, an advisor to the interim Haiti recovery Commission, the Group of experts to develop reconstruction plans, said land ownership disputes and silver delays kept much housing, beyond sporadic projects, starting to take off. "We put all the information together," she said. "But we do not have a plan with numbers in it."
Only 37% more than $ 5 billion pledged last year by foreign Governments and international organizations has been disbursed to the Haitian Government, the Fund for reconstruction of Haiti, non-governmental organizations or other entities, according to the Organization of the United Nations.
Diplomats are complained of paperwork in Haiti and the uncertain outcome of the chaotic presidential election last year, which was finally resolved when a popular singer, Michel Martelly, prevailed in a runoff in March. He will assume his functions in May and pledged to accelerate things.
The Haitian Government, in turn, said that some groups nongovernmental 10,000 have failed to coordinate with them, slowing approval of projects.
As delays continued, waves of people have left the camps, often with nowhere to go. In a survey of 1,033 residents of 22 camps dismantled, the migration Group concluded that forced evictions represented the largest share of departures, about 34 per cent. But crime is high (13.6%), poor conditions (13.9%) and the threat of rain and hurricanes (16.4%) also took a toll.
Hundreds of camps have disappeared completely; There are 1,061 up to now, a Summit of 1,555 in July.
One of the most striking examples - a jumble of more than 300 tents and lean-to perched dangerously along the thin median of a six-lane road - was dismantled in January after officials found space near transition houses 180 housing families.
Plywood huts, painted in a kaleidoscope of pastels, in an industrial zone are meant to be temporary, lasting for three to five years. More than 100,000 such shelters of transition had to be constructed in Haiti, but less than half of them have been completed, hung up in large part by the slow to remove the rubble still lining many streets and the difficulties to find land and funding.
But even in this Step-up of a tent, residents do not rest easy.
"We have been resettled, Yes, but the situation is the same," said Michellange Bourdeau, 38. "In the middle of the road other could see us, but where we are now, nobody can see us and come to help." We are the forgotten.
Aid groups have walked a line between providing products of necessities such as food, water and to worry about constant services should help transform the slums more permanent camps. Already, several camps athletes hairdressers, night clubs and markets.
But camps often are cruelly lacking. Last week, 53 members of Congress, urged the administration Obama for help, arguing that 38% of the camps had no regular water supply. Almost a third have no toilets, they said. Where toilets are provided, each of them is shared by an average of 273 people.
And it is more difficult to stay in the camps, so because people are forced to leave the Earth or because they are drawn by the attraction of the home. Or both.
When Marie Nicoles Méus and her four children were expelled from a camp in January, they moved in a cabin wall of mud that his brother had built his own family.
It is on a trail littered with garbage, but even with mosquito swarm, floods, stifling heat and cramped shared with a friend and her baby, Mrs. Méus takes comfort in being close to the family.
"I am worried," she said storms coming from the rainy season. "But I have faith in God."
Vladimir Laguerre contributed reporting.
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