Planning Scheme for Baillergeau

The scheme for Baillergeau came from the same international tender of the public works ministry as the Martissant scheme, with project ownership delegated to FOKAL, the CIAT and the GRET in the project owner group, and ACT-LGL as the study team. Residents recognize eight blocks in the neighborhood, but Haitian urban planning has no administrative unit called a neighborhood, and the report notes that this affects access to basic services. A steep foothill of Morne l'Hôpital between the Georges and Ti Sous ravines, with slopes sometimes above 50 percent and yet built on, gives the neighborhood a feeling of unity.

The 2010 earthquake destroyed about 58 percent of the buildings, and more in the poorer sectors: 76 percent of the lower Saint Louis area and 65 percent of Anba Limyè and Ti Sous. An IOM enumeration of January 2012 counted 1,491 houses holding 2,252 households and 8,894 people. The report covers risk prevention and environment, a new housing policy and public space, and quality of life, with an action sheet for each proposal and its estimated cost.

For housing it proposes pilot operations on priority sites: the KEDO plot to rehouse 73 families living in tents, the Anba Limyè block (190 houses, 124 of them tagged red) and the corner of Muguet street and avenue N, each to provide 25 percent more housing capacity than before. The target is to support 300 families or homes in the first two years and 500 homes in total, using local labor and seismic standards. The institutional chapter, shared in substance with the Martissant scheme, addresses the legal status of the scheme and its implementation.