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05 OCTOBER 2015 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Workers pack a resident's "khlong jar" on moving day in the Wat Kalayanamit neighborhood. Khlong jars are large ceramic jars used to store domestic water in homes that don't have municipal water. The people moving were being evicted from their homes. Fifty-four 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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05 OCTOBER 2015 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Workers pack a resident's "khlong jar" on moving day in the Wat Kalayanamit neighborhood. Khlong jars are large ceramic jars used to store domestic water in homes that don't have municipal water. The people moving were being evicted from their homes. Fifty-four 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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