WatKalayanamitEvictions
14 SEPTEMBER 2015 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A man listens to his portable radio in the tiny room he rents near Wat Kalayanamit. The room is about four feet by four feet, too small for him to layout in. He lives alone and is one of the renters being evicted from their homes near the temple. Fiftyfour homes around Wat Kalayanamit, a historic Buddhist temple on the Chao Phraya River in the Thonburi section of Bangkok are being razed and the residents evicted to make way for new development at the temple. The abbot of the temple said he was evicting the residents, who have lived on the temple grounds for generations, because their homes are unsafe and because he wants to improve the temple grounds. The evictions are a part of a Bangkok trend, especially along the Chao Phraya River and BTS light rail lines. Low income people are being evicted from their long time homes to make way for urban renewal. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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