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Topic: Are "Igloos" a Solution To Haiti's Housing Crisis? A Canadian Entrepreneur Believes So.

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Are "Igloos" a Solution To Haiti's Housing Crisis? A Canadian Entrepreneur Believes So.

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Are "Igloos" a Solution To Haiti's Housing Crisis? A Canadian Entrepreneur Believes So. He Has Designed the Structure & Is Now In Haiti Ready to Build. What Do You Think?

The long road out of Haiti's capital twists and turns through misery as it climbs the hill toward Pétionville.

There are collapsed houses here and there, as well as the tent city that Sean Penn has been running for months on the grounds of a former country club. Wherever space allows, little roadside workshops are churning out wooden furniture and metal chairs in the hopes that, one day, they'll find buyers with homes to furnish.

And then it hits you. About halfway up the hill, there's a sight so curious, so unexpectedly foreign, that it takes a moment to register. On the roof of a one-storey concrete house sits a fibreglass igloo, its exterior painted, oddly enough, in the traditional colours of camouflage.

With 1.3 million people still living in tents and now enduring the heavy rains of Hurricane Tomas, Haiti remains in desperate need of proper housing.

This, Canadian Ken Laughren now hopes to resolve, at least in part, with said igloo.

Nine feet tall at its peak, the model dome on display measures 18 feet by 25 feet. It would normally come in white. The price tag: around $6,000.

In the concrete building underneath, a spartan sales office has been assembled, and while no actual sales have yet been clinched, Laughren remains hopeful.

The dome, after all, is the product of Laughren's self-professed mid-life crisis, in which he decided not to buy a red Corvette and instead headed to his wood shop in Kelowna, B.C., to start fashioning the necessary moulds.

I felt this was the answer to mankind's needs, Laughren says.

Canadian Super Igloos Inc. was duly birthed, now with a Haitian offshoot. Laughren has brought in the necessary moulds, tools and raw materials and has a standby staff of locals ready to launch production.

As it happens, this is not a rare sentiment. Since the earthquake, hundreds of international companies have descended on Haiti with just as many ideas on how to house the people now living in makeshift shelters.

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