Other Worlds is an economic justice group that supports economic
and social alternatives around the world. In a 2011 Forum on the
Crisis of Housing in Haiti, a group of camp residents and
advocates asked “grassroots organizations and all other
movements to mobilize with us on the housing issue so that we
can achieve this dream of justice and liberty.” Today, with more
than 500,000 people still living under sun-scorched tarps two
years after the earthquake of January, 2010, the Haitian housing
rights movement continues to gain urgency. Demanding
comprehensive housing policy in the long term and decent, secure
housing in the short term, the groups that comprise the movement
have created detailed prescriptions for how to resolve the
crisis. They are up against a lot, however, since most entities
in charge of housing have not sought to “mobilize with” the
movement; rather, they have come in with their own ideas. The
housing projects touted as the solutions to Haiti’s displacement
crisis have foreign corporations