we're going to continue and next hear from beth ferris. beth? >> thanks a lot. listen, every speaker so far has mentioned internally displaced persons and so i'd like to do in about five minutes is to deepen the analysis a little bit. and look at some of the particular challenges of working with idps in haiti and some of the challenge that haitian displacement poses for the humanitarian community generally. displacement in haiti is massive. you know whether the numbers are 800,000 or down from 1.8 million, when last summer, this is a large percentage of the population. over a thousand idp sites or camps in port-au-prince alone. every street corner, every empty lot is filled with makeshift tents -- actually it's filled with pretty tattered tarps a s rather than tents themselves. the numbers are soft. we really don't know a lot about displace in the haiti. i om has done a magnificent job of trying to track the numbers, but it's hard, in part, because this is a dynamic, complicated situation. not everybody living in these idp camps lost a home in the earthquake. yo

we're going to continue and next hear from beth ferris. beth? >> thanks a lot. listen, every speaker so far has mentioned internally displaced persons and so i'd like to do in about five minutes is to deepen the analysis a little bit. and look at some of the particular challenges of working with idps in haiti and some of the challenge that haitian displacement poses for the humanitarian community generally. displacement in haiti is massive. you know whether the numbers are 800,000 or down from 1.8 million, when last summer, this is a large percentage of the population. over a thousand idp sites or camps in port-au-prince alone. every street corner, every empty lot is filled with makeshift tents -- actually it's filled with pretty tattered tarps a s rather than tents themselves. the numbers are soft. we really don't know a lot aout displace in the haiti. i om has done a magnificent job of trying to track the numbers, but it's hard, in part, because this is a dynamic, complicated situation. not everybody living in these idp camps lost a home in the earthquake. you

beth ferris is the director of the brookings project on internal displacement and also senior fellowhere at foreign policy. she's an expert on force migration, human rights, humanitarian action, the role of civil society, she's just returned, as many of our speakers have, from haiti. she's spent many years in geneva working for the world council of churches, teaches and writes extensively on these topics. and then we will hear from claude jedat, director of habitat for humanitarian haiti and he's been running that position since 2004. habitat for humanity has been in haiti for 27 years so they have a long-term perspective on the issues of shelter and housing on the island. he's also a member of the interim haiti reconstruction commission which is the body that is co-chaired by prime minister of haiti and former president bill clinton that will also be hearing about in the course of the discussion. as you know from the press attention on this anniversary, a lot of people are asking what's going on, why aren't we seeing more progress on reconstruction. i think the job here is to really

beth are tracks. >> and all of it was being fed by the ferry building. >> the golden age of the ferry building is generallysidered to be between 1915 and 1932. they had 43 ferry boats carrying 47 million passengers a year by 1932. but things were beginning to change. and what happened? well, by the mid-30s, the ferry building had two brand new rivals. the bay bridge opened in 1936 with the golden gate bridge opening the following year. the automobile lurking in the wings now took center stage. ferry boat traffic began to fall off dramatically. by 1939, service began to disappear all together will. the life-giving ferry building was suddenly starting to atrophy. in 1957, the embarcadero freeway was born, a child of the automobile. a ribbon of concrete was strung across the ferry building's facade. there were suggestions it was time to tear down the aging beauty. the embarcadero freeway lasted for 35 years. but the ferry building would survive as it always has, altered and redefined many times, but still the beautiful, understated entrance to the city of san francisco. >> this has been the people's building.