Posted on 04/15/2014 6:16:04 PM PDT by markomalley
An effort by Washington to build housing for Haitians in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake has fallen short and exceeded costs, a U.S. government report said Tuesday.
The audit by the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Agency for International Development said the project to build 4,000 houses outside Haiti's capital resulted in the construction of only 816.
The U.S. plan also sought to provide "home sites" on which others would pay for the construction of houses. This, too, fell short, with USAID completing engineering and design services for only 2,300 home sites out of a projected 11,000.
The project was part of a broader effort to develop infrastructure and build homes on four settlements outside Port-au-Prince to alleviate overcrowding in the capital, a metropolitan area of 3 million people.
(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...
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We sent our most capable guy to be in charge of the Haiti relief — didn’t we?
What was his name now.....
PHOTOS: This Groundbreaking 3D Printer Built 10 Homes in 24 Hours
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3144471/posts
Oh yes, I remember now:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/3292696/Bill-Clinton-to-head-Haiti-relief-efforts
How much did these 816 huts cost? A million each ?
“In your plan, ‘A Better Britain For Us’, you claimed that you would build 88 thousand-million-billion houses a year in the Greater London area alone. In fact, you built only three in the last fifteen years. Are you a bit disappointed with this result?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXQqI9xGzvc
Might be interesting to find out exactly where those homes are and who is occupying them.
My daughter went to Haiti with our church a year ago. She said that after the earthquake, people are afraid to live indoors, even in new buildings.
Not quite that bad: 900 'homes' cost $90 million, or $100,000 per hut, using Haitian labor and paying Haitian prices for the lots. It sounds like a Bill Clinton exercise.
Another failed government project.....surprise! We have to form a committee and appropriate more money.
The Hati relief fund money we in the US gave is apparently being manage by the same folks who spent the Hurricane Katrina money.
The Hati relief fund money we in the US gave is apparently being manage by the same folks who spent the Hurricane Katrina money.
There were SOME successful projects that came out of D.C.
The hydro-electric dams, first on the Moon, nuclear power stations and Ike’s Interstate Highway system.
Ummm... I can’t think of anything else.
How many of those "successful" projects were completed on time, within budget, and fully met the baselined scope?
And can you call them successful projects if they didn't do so?
Each that I named benefitted American citizens, regardless of whether that met some nitpicker’s schedule or budget. NOTHING coming out of D.C. meets budget or schedule!
The Interstates greatly improved interstate commerce and tourism.
The electrical power provided by the dams and nuclear power stations provided for expansion and an alternative to coal.
The Moon shot project led to development of many new technologies.
I consider those outcomes to be successful results.
Exactly.
It is not "nitpicking" to ask for a project to accomplish its scope within budget and within schedule.
Can you imagine a business operating on a "whatever it takes, how ever long it takes" basis? ...not just on some new innovation but on all of its projects? That business would go defunct in short order with that kind of attitude.
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