Some workers at the mine live in bleak company housing. Others rent squalid rooms in the town.

一些矿区的工人就住在毫无遮蔽的公司宿舍里，还有些人在镇上租破房子住。

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The story is very different on the smaller farms, where workers live off-site in their own often squalid and insecure housing.

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To help get people out of the sprawling, squalid shanty towns it has built 2.7m low-cost homes, housing around 10m people.

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So most of the Uraba refugees in the end will probably drift to the squalid and overcrowded shanty-towns of Colombia's big cities, already housing hundreds of thousands of people driven earlier from their homes.

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