Survey: Housing projects delayed for more than 10,000 evacuees

(Source) http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/analysis/AJ201310110006
October 11, 2013
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
Problems such as difficulties in securing land and shortages of public employees and bidders are cited by governments in an Asahi Shimbun survey showing about 30 percent of the housing projects for evacuees of the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami will be delayed.
The central and local governments plan to build 28,017 public housing units in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures in northeastern Japan for disaster victims after they leave temporary housing by fiscal 2015.
However, construction of about 9,000 homes, or more than 30 percent of the public housing projects, will likely not be completed by the scheduled date, leaving more than 10,000 people without places to call “home.”
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Comment from reader
Marushka France
The very best place for the disaster victim is - AWAY - from the Cesium-Plutonium-Americium plagued area of Japan! It's horrible to keep any people in such high risk environments - Horrible to plant food crops in Tohoku region! MUST use soil amendments to block absorption - MUST evacuate the worst areas - estimated to be at a minimum 10,000 sq km!