"15 Minutes to Leave": Denial of the Right to Adequate Housing in Post-Quake Haiti

The report follows Amnesty International's 2013 study of forced evictions from displacement camps. It draws on interviews and research in Haiti in April and October 2013 and September 2014, including visits to camps in the Port-au-Prince area, the Canaan informal settlement, a social housing settlement at Morne-à-Cabrit, and a part of downtown Port-au-Prince where houses were demolished, with phone interviews about evictions in Cap-Haïtien. It finds that five years after the earthquake durable housing remains out of reach for hundreds of thousands of displaced people, that services in the remaining camps have fallen below international standards, and that forced evictions continue in camps, informal settlements and the context of reconstruction and infrastructure projects.

It reviews rental subsidies, transitional shelters and housing repair, and new initiatives including the transformation of camps into neighborhoods, the regularization of Canaan and the National Policy on Housing and Habitat. It ends with recommendations to the government of Haiti and to donors, other governments and international agencies.