Bernard Parish east of New Orleans is lined with small houses built after World War II.
In one area, stands dozens of abandoned and empty houses built by an aid agency.
There were some 50 or 60 small, square houses built along the shore, each a few metres from its neighbour.
Six months on from the tsunami, she lives in one of the temporary houses built by the government.
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He said the affected neighborhood, home to many Hispanic residents, included more than 60 houses built by the group Habitat for Humanity.
The few thousand who would have to surrender the property they now hold will have new houses built for them, possibly in the same area.
In Luanda, people are coaxed to leave their shacks and move to brand-new houses built by Chinese contractors, but many move quickly back into town.
Developers say it will see houses built over the next 20 years, creating 6, 000 jobs, as well as a business park, a GPs surgery and supermarket.
Taking the safe-house notion even further, a smattering of houses built during the Cold War sit atop fallout shelters, ready for use in the event of disaster.
The sources of these toxins and poisons are often easy to isolate: a leaking roof can cause mold, houses built before 1978 may have lead paint and plywood can off-gas formaldehyde.
Of the 5.6 million people with flood insurance coverage, roughly 1 million get it for less than half the true price, because they live in houses built before flood hazard maps were created.
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He built an innovative cable car system so that slum-dwellers in Caracas whose houses were built precariously on hillsides, could more easily access the centre of the capital.
Clearly, too many houses were built in the previous decade, and loose money was a factor.
Fruit-growing regions are dotted with their new houses, built in brick and sprouting television aerials.
The houses were built on Cumberland Avenue and Grayson Green in Wellingore by local building firm Taylor Pearson.
Dozens of spacious, two-story houses newly built for visiting dignitaries sit on lush, green grass surrounded by palm trees.
Several of its grander houses, built when a man could still harvest riches from the sea, are boarded up.
More than half of new houses are built by their owners with cash.
Tourists take photos of my street (of candy colored houses, built in 1851).
You are also in one of Tahiti's most ambient areas, where the paved road ends and local houses are built right along the beach.
It comprises a few rows of identical houses, built to house the workers of a hydro-electrical dam and a brief line of shops.
Planning councillor Keith Chopping said the number of houses already built was about 5, 000 and they expected to receive "more than enough" proposals.
But in the poorest regions, such as Kashmir, most houses are built of local materials by the people who then live in them.
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They cannot be used to block development outright, but they can give residents a say about where houses are built and what they might look like.
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"We are still digging with our hands and shovels because we can't use cranes as many of the houses were built of clay, " Dhakil Qassim told AP.
The number of affordable houses being built for those requiring subsidised housing has failed to keep pace with demand and is currently lower than it was a decade ago.
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