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When the earthquake happened on January 24, 2010, 1.6 million people were displaced from their homes. Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes told a news conference, “We will make sure that everybody we can reach has… proper, waterproof, makeshift shelter over their heads by the time the rainy season starts in earnest,” And by July 2010, people living in camps was at 1.5 million and by November dropped 30% to 1.05 million. Other than the camps that have been offered, there are also more than 500,000 people living in host homes, and “many of those who did not move to camps slept in the street, yards, or left the city altogether, returning to rural homesteads of origin.”  But for those whose homes were badly destroyed were encouraged to return to them. On May 4, 2011, the World Bank approved the Port au Prince Neighborhood Housing Reconstruction project to grant people whose homes were destroyed from the earthquake and that are beyond repair $3,500 towards reconstruction. The homes will be demolished and plans must be approved by the Community Reconstruction Center. The closing date of this project is estimated to be June 30, 2015 and total project cost is $65 million. Most people are also being encouraged to move back to where their homes were originally, rather than just rebuilding somewhere else. Because it is believed that this will increase the likelihood of a seamless transition between temporary shelter and permanent housing. It is also argued that adopting such a strategy stimulates self-help, reducing the costs of reconstruction, and speeding up the return to some semblance of normalcy.”