In Haiti, the Displaced Are Left Clinging to the Edge - NYTimes.com

By DEBORAH SONTAG

Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

Hundreds of families live on the median strip of a road in the Port-au-Prince area.

Six months after an earthquake, only 28,000 of 1.5 million displaced Haitians have new homes, and Port-au-Prince remains a tableau of life in the ruins.