Displaced take over government buildings
As U.S troops entered Iraq in 2003, displaced families everywhere occupied abandoned government buildings and converted them into shelters.Forty-seven year old Umm Yasser has found shelter for herself and her four children in a small room in a compound owned by the ministry of education in Karrada neighbourhood in Baghdad. To secure the room in the Hussein complex, as it is known, she was forced to pay the previous ‘tenant’ US $200 to convince him to leave.
"Living in Hussein complex is not easy," said Umm Yasser. But with few other housing options she does not complain too strongly.
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