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Haiti's future bumper crop: houses?
Gingerbread it’s not, but the answer to the permanent housing crisis in Port-au-Prince and Léogâne may lie in sugarcane. Or sorghum. Or a blend of Haitian crop fibers. Whatever the resource, a team of Notre Dame civil engineering professors and students think the future of Haitian housing might come down to a choice between masonry that can explode and crumble during earthquakes, or lightweight panels that would merely pop out under pressure.