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Housing Crisis for Sri Lanka's Tamils

Housing Crisis for Sri Lanka's Tamils

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Jul 16, 2013
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Four years after Sri Lanka's bitter, 26-year civil war ended in 2009, thousands of permanent homes needed for returnees to northern Sri Lanka are not being built because of a lack of donor funding.

"Although the remaining gap in the housing sector in the north keeps changing due to new returnees, there is a serious funding gap for at least another 30,00…

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