Hi, I cannot understand why you would want to subdivide a...

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Hi, I cannot understand why you would want to subdivide a small country such as Haiti into even smaller states.

I am not thinking of a charity project.

Government loan guarantee is a pretty common practice.

It helps investors mitigate risk. By the way past Haitian governments many decades ago did provide loan guarantees to private investors.

I am not talking about building houses for the poor but instead for people who can afford them. Major modern suburban housing projects were carried under Magloire 1er Cite & 2eme Cite St Martin; unfortunately they were built on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince.

Human beings are primates, migrants by nature.

Overpopulation is a city like PaP is relative to the availability of jobs, housing units and transport infrastructure.

Imagine there were jobs for all the 2 millions and fast transit to carry them after work to the apartments in high rise buildings would call PaP overpopulated?

Off course not. Since you see 100,000 of them parading the PaP streets on foot bumping onto each other then it becomes a problem to you based on your personal view of people and place.

Reversing duly owned vacant land back to the state sounds like nationalizing private properties, unless you can muster enough charisma to do what Fidel Castro did in 1961 (confiscating land and distributing them to the peasants), I suggest you put this idea aside.

However, the state of Haiti can always buy back land that the owners no longer want or no longer care for.
Real estate investments are highly profitable ventures.

I am interested in building equity and changing the face of a nation.

I am interested in sidewalks, pretty neighborhoods.

I am not interested in making a fellow haitian from the countryside feel ashamed they migrated to the capital in search of a better life. They're starving in the back country.

I am interested in convincing them that the whole country would be better off if the peasants could produce more staple and cash crops.

Thanks

Rubens F. Titus, January 28 2008, 10:48 PM

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