World IN BRIEF : CHINA : One Million Facing Makeshift Housing
About 1 million Chinese whose homes were destroyed in this summer’s floods will have to spend the winter in makeshift housing on narrow strips of high land, a government official said. Yao Shaoyu, head of disaster relief at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said another million homeless will move into permanent housing before winter. But he said some villages in Anhui province north of the Yangtze River are still underwater, forcing residents to remain on dikes and other high land. For three months, they have lived in makeshift tents of plastic sheeting, bamboo poles and grass mats.
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