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Canaan: An ungoverned Haitian city fighting to stay alive

What do you know about Canaan, the new mountain side city in the northern outskirts of Port-au-Prince built out of necessity after the January 2010 earthquake?

If you are coming from Hinche, Centre, Haiti, going to Port-au-Prince via Route Neuf you cant miss it.

A short drive north from Haiti's overcrowded capital of Port-au-Prince, a metropolis is rising from a previously desolate landscape. Some 250,000 people have flocked to Canaan in the eight years since an earthquake ravaged Haiti, destroying 100,000 homes. Born out of a disaster, it's a city without a government, and for many, it's an experiment in self-determination. But its future is increasingly uncertain.

Built from scratch by people in poorly governed, disaster-stricken Haiti, the city is emerging as an alternative model of urban existence

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