Cyclone Ditwah Exposed Sri Lanka’s Real Housing Crisis

Estate workers in Sri Lanka’s central district protest, demand decent housing after cyclone

The decades-long demand for decent, livable housing for Sri Lanka’s plantation workers has reemerged with urgency after Cyclone Ditwah devastated estates across all 25 districts.

Cyclone Ditwah Exposed Sri Lanka’s Real Housing Crisis

A Land-Use and Population Capacity Analysis By Sydney Marcus Silva NEW JERSEY, USA | 31 December 2025 (IDN) — Sri Lanka’s recurring housing crises, increasingly intensified by climate-related disasters, reflect long-standing structural failures in land-use planning rather than absolute land scarcity. This article examines the relationship between environmental constraints, historical land transformation, and contemporary settlement patterns in S…