16205: Laleau: Housing in Gonaives

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: NLaleau@aol.com
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In 1995, the best place was Chez Franz's 10-12 rooms attached to the
excellent
restaurant. It didn't have electricity all the time--but was clean and
well
cared for. In the evening the elderly women who owned it sat on the
veranda and
say the rosary. It was a better atmosphere than either of the two "hotels"
that
OAS/UN staff had used, Chez Elias (across the street from the Teleco
office)
and another one owned by a rough guy who used to get drunk and shoot off
his
mouth and his gun at night...It had a disco sometimes, and had a swimming
pool,
and when it rained, raw sewage from the street's open sewers flowed into
the
pool, to which he'd add more and more chlorine.  Maybe it's improved since
then, but ...  --nancy laleau