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(IsraelNN.com) Nearly 1,700 families expelled from northern Gaza and Gush Katif three summers ago still are without permanent homes as a result of the Disengagement program, which the Globes business newspaper called a "recipe for chaos." Its in-depth study shows that 80 percent of the expulsion victims are without permanent housing solutions despite optimistic promises by the Olmert administration.
 
Construction of new homes has begun at only two sites, with other sites only having reached the stage of allotting plots of land and others not even at that stage. 
 
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert 18 months ago proudly pronounced that 4,600 housing units would be built in Lachish, including 400 for former Gush Katif residents. However, the area remains as barren as it was when Prime Minister Olmert spoke, Globes reported.