KYOTO — The Asian Development Bank talks about spending trillions of dollars to eliminate poverty, promote sustainable economic development and reduce the global threat of greenhouse gases.

But Titi Soentoro just wishes it would learn how to properly spend a few thousand dollars on decent permanent housing.

Soentoro is from Indonesia's Aceh province, the area hit hardest by the Asian tsunami of December 2004. In the weeks and months following the disaster, one of the most pressing needs of the survivors was shelter.