Disaster survivors move into 3-story housing

People who lost their homes in the March 11th tsunami have begun moving into 3-story temporary housing in Miyagi Prefecture.

The 6 housing structures for 144 households have been built in a baseball ground in Onagawa Town, where flat sites are scarce. Local government officials say this is the first 3-story temporary housing in the country.

On Sunday, people began moving into the new housing, which was built by combining steel shipping and storage containers. Each unit has wide windows that admit sunlight to spacious rooms.

A woman in her 40s says that she is happy to finally have a home for her family after spending months in a shelter.

Sunday, November 06, 2011 13:00 +0900 (JST)