If you search for "Palais National Haiti" on Google, the search engine suggests the address Delmas 60, Musseau. The Haitian presidency’s headquarters has moved, as has the Prime Minister's office, along with the residences of tens of thousands of Port-au-Prince residents.

Just like in ordinary households, everyone at the palace believes the move is temporary and that the new address is only provisional—when there is even an address to speak of. In most cases, displaced people take refuge with relatives or friends. But time has proven the optimistic predictions wrong, and temporary displacements have turned into full-fledged exoduses.