{"65277":{"#nid":"65277","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Haiti\u0027s housing bubble, more pressing to some than election or Aristide: Professor Harley Etienne on Haiti\u0027s real estate market","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAmid jitters over the expected return today of exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide less than 48 hours before a presidential election here, many Haitians face a more basic problem: a housing bubble that is pricing many locals out of their homes... Harley Etienne, a native of Haiti and assistant professor of city and regional planning at Georgia Tech, agrees that a so-called \u201cdisaster economy\u201d has hugely inflated the Haitian capital\u2019s real estate market. Even before the quake, Haiti was known as \u0022the Republic of NGOs.\u0022 That was only exacerbated after Jan. 12, 2010.\u0026nbsp; \u201cThe prices are way out of scale, to the point that I don\u2019t know how you can justify some of it,\u201d says Mr. Etienne, who is part of a US-based research team assessing earthquake damage in Haiti and its impact on local communities. \u201cPart of it is tied to how devalued the Haitian currency is, but Haitian property owners are certainly trying to get some money while the getting is good.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27215","created_gmt":"2011-03-31 11:09:30","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:24:24","author":"Mike Alberghini","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"recycling event","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Americas\/2011\/0318\/Haiti-s-housing-bubble-more-pressing-to-some-than-election-or-Aristide","dateline":{"date":"2011-03-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-03-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"8247","name":"haiti"},{"id":"10023","name":"Harley Etienne"},{"id":"4097","name":"real estate"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}