A UN-led relocation brought 7,500 of the most vulnerable homeless Haitians -- less than 1% of the total Internally Displaced Persons -- to new planned camps outside Port-au-Prince like Corail and Camp Hope. But the vast majority of IDPs still live in makeshift tent cities with limited services like Petionville Golf Club and Belleville. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs aims to construct 130,000 temporary wooden shelters -- but the hurricane season has already begun. By Ben Piven and Mohammad Al-Kassim.
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