Haiti Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Real estate=== In rural areas, people often live in wooden huts with corrugated iron roofs. Outhouses are located in back of the huts. In Port-au-Prince, colorful [[shantytowns]] surround the central city and go up the mountainsides.<ref name="c151222">{{Cite news | first=Nathalie | last=Gagnon-Joseph | title=On sports, treasure hunting, and life | url=https://bartonchronicle.com/a-week-in-haiti-on-sports-treasure-hunting-and-life/ | newspaper=The Chronicle | location=Barton, Vermont | pages=28A, 29A | date=22 December 2015 | access-date=29 December 2015 | archive-date=1 January 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101024149/https://bartonchronicle.com/a-week-in-haiti-on-sports-treasure-hunting-and-life/ | url-status=dead }}</ref><!---the softcopy requires a subscription. Sorry. There is no softcopy alternative--> The middle and upper classes live in suburbs, or in the central part of the bigger cities in apartments, where there is urban planning. Many of the houses they live in are like miniature fortresses, located behind walls embedded with metal spikes, barbed wire, broken glass, and sometimes all three. The houses have backup generators, because the electrical grid is unreliable. Some even have rooftop reservoirs for water.<ref name="c151222" /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page