1. Houses made from different materials found in different camps
2. Ban Vinai was a hilly camp filled with long houses made of wood and corrugated iron roofs. Refugees also built bamboo and thatched single houses.
3. In the beginning, houses were built of bamboo and thatch roofs and earthen floors (dirt floors), allowing air to flow through the houses. But this also allowed insects into the homes. Later, houses were built of concrete with metal roofs. But the house got really hot.
4. In Ban Vinai, there were 395 buildings with 3,950 rooms.
5. There were 10 rooms in each long house, with a capacity of 10 individuals per room.
6. These houses were made from wood with metal roofs which made them too hot in the dry season, while in the monsoon season the rain hitting the roofs would be deafeningly loud, at night the hours of loud noise made sleep difficult, and for children very frightening.
7. Hmong man making straw roofing.
8. The houses had no electricity. People used candles or kerosene lamps, many people had neither
9. Many families who could afford to do so, chose to build their own houses. There 2,000 houses were built.