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       Editor and prime reporter is Doug Terry, a veteran television and radio reporter in   Washington, DC, (details below)

As the TerryReport indicated in the first few days after the massive earthquake in Haiti, it is simply not possible to keep three million people in the devastated city of Port au Prince. The first wave came as Haitian simply picked up and got onto every boat, tap tap (bus) and private car leaving the city. Now, it is official: tent cities will be set up when and where possible. The debate is over whether in the city or outside. This report from the NY Times:

JACMEL, Haiti  Haiti has approved plans for more than a dozen sprawling tent cities in and around Port-au-Prince, the first step in an epic relocation effort that could reshape the country as up to one million people displaced by the earthquake find new places to live.

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Exodus from Port-au-Prince

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 Louis Richard, 17, peered out from a tent he is sharing in Jacmel, Haiti, with 34 other people. Most of the city's 40,000 residents lost their homes in the earthquake.

 Here in one of the cities hardest hit by the earthquake as in Port-au-Prince, the capital  the housing needs are acute, and demand for shelter has intensified. Officials with the Haitian government and the United Nations said Thursday that they were moving as quickly as possible to establish organized camps, with water, food and health care, before the rainy season starts to peak in May.

Here is another clip from that story:

Officials with the migration agency have argued for sites inside cities close to employment, while Haitian government ministers have stressed the need to build as much shelter as fast as possible.

Already, work has begun on government land near the suburb of Croix des Bouquets. United Nations troops from Brazil have begun leveling the ground in preparation for a tent city for around 30,000 people.

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