CNN 2010-02-19

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And nearly half a million homeless people are still living in those makeshift settlements in Haiti today. Only a tinny tiny percentage have made it to organize tent cities. The rest are making do with whatever building materials they can find hidden in that rubble¹.

CNN's John Vause has their story.

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JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): With a hammer and machete, Charles Jonas is building a new home.

"The corrugated² iron came from my old house," he says. "The wood I got from around here."

He doesn't know how long he'll live like this with his wife, but with a shortage of tents he says he had to do something.

Across Port-au-Prince, it seems, there are hundreds of thousands of people just like Charles.

Sprawling³ shanty⁴ towns seem to grow larger and more permanent every day. This one is just across from the presidential palace. Street vendors⁵ have set up shop, and the women with the buckets, are walking pharmacies⁶.

(On camera): So the people here are building these homes with whatever they can find. Sheets of corrugated iron, pieces of wood, this is actually what's left over from an outdoor billboard⁷.

We asked this lady if we could go inside, have a look at the house, she said yes, so come on in. So inside here, this is all she has left. There's a bed, another bed, a mirror, some pots and pans. And inside this dark, hot, cramped⁸ house, she lives with her husband, her sister, and her four children.

(Voice-over): On the streets garbage is piling up and a pungent⁹ smell is a sharp reminder¹⁰ there's no sanitation¹¹. Ideal conditions for the spread of disease, say health workers.

(On camera): You got to get these people out of these conditions? And soon?

ISAAC BOYD, CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: As quickly as possible.

VAUSE (voice-over): Isaac Boyd from Catholic Relief services is planning to move up to 200,000 Haitians into semi-permanent camps over the next two months. That will be home for up to five years.

BOYD: I haven't seen anything like this, really, before. And that's saying a lot. I work in the different -- a lot of different context.

VAUSE: Thousands of tents are being given out, but that's just a fraction of what's needed. Médecins sans Frontières or Doctors without Borders say these are strong enough to weather a hurricane. Welcome news for Frank (INAUDIBLE).

(On camera): He's been sleeping out in the open for almost a month now.

(Voice-over): So when he walked inside for the first time, he took off his shoes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you.

VAUSE: John Vause, CNN, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.