7 Making a start in the existing Progresso neighborhood

Yet it is in fairly poor condition, rather like parts of hundreds of other cities all over the world, blighted, slum buildings mixed with the occasional beautiful little garden, with businesses that have gone bankrupt, and so on. And, in the middle of the neighborhood, there is a community of poor families who have come from Haiti. Because of that, there are all the problems that arise from fear of other people, fear that the neighborhood is collapsing, in part, perhaps because some people do not want to be near the people who have come from Haiti. There is a lack of confidence in future development, and reluctance to build.

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