But it took three years to erect the community, and experts are not sure it can be replicated before more desperate returnees give up and leave again.
So, as newspapers all hold hands and begin to erect gated communities, will there be a new stability?
Some of these projects involve erecting whole communities, with high densities of homes, main-street shopping, sports arenas and the like.
Now the 54-year-old whose work has been brought to the big screen in the shape of the movies Sin City and 300 has enraged the anti-capitalist Occupy movement by branding those who have erected tented communities at the heart of the west's financial districts "a pack of louts, thieves and rapists".
Plaintiff Michiko Gingery filed a lawsuit against the city of Glendale and called for removal of the 1,100-pound 1,100-poundue since it was erected in the community's Central Park in 2013.
He said the first thing he did after the tsunami was get the older schoolchildren to erect tents in the community center's parking lot, since aftershocks made survivors afraid to sleep inside.
Last year, for example, residents of a small village near Delhi, India – which had no health facility or paved roads – joined together as a community to erect a new school.
It reinforces a sense of community by erecting strong walls to comfort those on the inside.
Or that while others in the community are erecting modern concrete houses, the couple made theirs the way homes were built here for hundreds of years, using earthen construction methods passed down by word of mouth.
Just days earlier, officials had come to their community and erected bright blue 8ft screens bearing the Commonwealth Games logo to hide the colony and its impoverished residents from passing traffic.
