The main campus for the Papua New Guinea University of Technology is located 1 kilometre to the South of Tent City.

Many houses were damaged or completely destroyed and hundreds of people at the Five Mile settlement along the Highland highway were also affected by mud-slides.

This tendency corresponds to the fact that most respondents were born in the Sepik and Highlands areas and less than half of them have had former migration experiences.

Firstly the rental housing market in Papua New Guinea was, and still is, heavily subsidised by the government and associated with paying rates, taxes and other regular repair and maintenance costs.

[1] Public housing in Papua New Guinea is not only unavailable, but also unattainable for a large proportion (60.0%) of the urban population.