the office of Ward Commissioner to provide an alternative proof of address, even when banks refuse to allow camp residents to open basic financial accounts. 24. The ‘Bihari’ community faces obstacles in getting Trade Licenses. The focus group discussion respondents in the IRB research shared that only 1.3% have valid Trade License. Due to their habitation in the camps, City Corporation often denies to issue trade license in favor of Bihari People. Without a trade license, business owners face difficulties accessing credit or expanding their businesses legally. Housing and Land 25. The housing of 116 recognized Bihari Camps in Bangladesh are in dire situation. In general, houses in the camps are tiny, usually less than 8x10 feet, and host entire families. Residents raise their beds to make space for possessions underneath. Houses are separated by two-foot (61cm) wide passageways shared by residents, goats and chickens. Most of the houses consist of one room. Some of the inhabitants reside in two storied buildings. The staircases of these two storied buildings are so narrow that it is impossible for more than one person to climb at a time. It is found that three generations live under the same roof. When it rains, the camp floods, toilets included. In many of the Bihari camps in Dhaka, the floors are weak and prone to crumbling. Gaps in the walls and under the stairways expose rusted structural steel and rotting concrete. Electrical lines hang in webs above the hallways and are perilously frayed 26. Despite the increase in population through migration and high birth rates, the area of the camp lands has not increased, which has led to a situation of severe overcrowding. Residents have coped with the shortage of space by building upward (second and third stories) instead of outward. In addition, many have built space-saving devices, such as shelving for their belongings at ceiling level and skylights for ventilation, as there is little to no space between the houses to allow for standard windows. 27. Another major development in housing design after the initiation of the camps has been the renovation of kutcha dwellings into semipucca or fully pucca structures. A majority of the dwellings built in 1972 for the temporary housing of this community were kutcha structures made of bamboo, plywood, thatch, or corrugated iron sheets. They remained in a kutcha state for much of the past 46 years as many of the residents felt uncertain about their future in Bangladesh. 28. The camp dwellers are very anxious about the threat of camp eviction. They continue to feel insecurity about their land and housing situation, despite the efforts of camp leaders to try to negotiate with the government to stop evictions. 29. In 1993, the National Housing Society sold the land of the Bihari camps in Mirpur, Dhaka, as plots to people in the nearby area. There are thirty nine camps populated by seventy thousand people in Mirpur. The National Housing Society is now planning to demolish all structures in the camps. Not being able to stop the demolition order, the community leaders petitioned to the Supreme Court in 2001 to stop the demolition of their houses and other properties; the court issued an injunction order to the National Housing Society in the same year. 30. Similar trends are also noticeable in other places inhabited by this community. During the 2001 to 2012 period, nine petitions were filed on behalf of Biharis in different camps (Mirpur, Syedpur, Geneva, Mymensingh Patgudam, Adamjee Nagar, and seventy other camps) asking the court to stop any eviction in the camps before rehabilitation is done. After a long period of hearings, a bench of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court issued a judgment on 29 March 2016 withdrawing all injunctions and stay 6