But with the large numbers of buildings destroyed or damaged they will need some sort of temporary housing. Given the state of the country before the quakes, a FEMA camp would be an imporvement on their living conditions for many of them.
Also of interest is that the US embassy in Haiti is the 5th largest in the world, it was finished in 2008 and is on a 10 acre "compound". Why would we build a billion-dollar embassy in Haiti?
HAITI: Officials dedicate new US embassy compound
The Associated Press, June 24, 2008
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - U.S. officials are celebrating the official opening of a $75 million embassy compound in the Haitian capital.
Behind imposing walls and set back from the street on a former sugarcane field near the Port-au-Prince airport, the 10-acre compound features an atrium, space for more than 1,000 workers and a swimming pool.