From the article:

165,000 Haitians have fled their homes, driven out by gang violence, with nowhere else to go in Port-au-Prince the Haitian capital city of nearly three million people.

Some 79,000 people are temporarily staying with friends or family, but another 48,000 have crowded into dozens of makeshift shelters like Almicar’s or sought refuge in parks, churches, schools and abandoned buildings in Port-au-Prince and beyond.

The situation is overwhelming nonprofits and non-governmental organisations such as churches which run overseas missions in Haiti...

The United Nations’s International Organization for Migration has helped more than 3,400 people find homes in safer areas and gives families some $350 to cover one year of rent.

But a growing number of those families have been returning to shelters as gangs continued to invade communities once considered safe. Even makeshift shelters are closing and moving elsewhere because of the continuing violence, said Philippe Branchat, head of the IOM in Haiti.

What goes on down there truly is a tragedy. For many years, they had a corrupt government. I know many people from there, and they’re heartbroken as to what is happening.