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¿Imaginas vivir en un lugar que no tiene una dirección física asignada? Esta es la historia de cientos de comunidades a través de Puerto Rico que carecen de una dirección oficial para cada residencia.
¿Imaginas vivir en un lugar que no tiene una dirección física asignada? Esta es la historia de cientos de comunidades a través de Puerto Rico que carecen de una dirección oficial para cada residencia.
En Loíza, las mujeres empobrecidas y personas negras han sido las más afectadas por la falta de esa identidad residencial.
For thousands of people without a physical address, FEMA post-disaster aid was delayed or denied. In Loíza, impoverished women and Black people have been the most affected by nor having that residential identity.
Una investigación del CPI había evidenciado que, cuando el programa federal Disaster Case Management terminó, muchos damnificados seguían con las mismas necesidades.
An audit by the US Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General found irregularities in the payment of $17.1 million that the Federal Emergency Management Agency disbursed to nonprofit organizations for post-disaster work in Puerto Rico.
Communities around the irrigation channels, whose conditions worsened due to the flooding caused by Hurricane Fiona, will continue to be at risk because there are no immediate solutions to prevent obstructions during extraordinary rainfall events, experts and the government of Puerto Rico told the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI, in Spanish). Although the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) set aside $62 million in Hurricane María recovery funds for permanent work projects for this network of irrigation channels, the process is still in the design stage, one of the steps required by the federal agency to allocate the funds and, eventually, disburse them. The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) submitted three permanent works projects to FEMA in October 2021 for the three irrigation districts it manages in Patillas in the South, Isabela in the North and Lajas in the southwestern coast. These structures belonged to the former Puerto Rico Water Resources Authority (PRWRA), created in 1941 to manage the reservoirs used for electricity generation. Irrigation channels are part of that system and now provide water for agriculture in those areas.
Las comunidades aledañas a los canales de riego cuyas condiciones empeoraron por las inundaciones causadas por el paso del huracán Fiona continuarán en riesgo pues no existen soluciones inmediatas que eviten las obstrucciones de estas zanjas durante eventos de lluvia extraordinaria.
Hurricane Fiona’s first gusts were barely blowing when dozens of mayors had to improvise solutions. When they arrived at the locations that the government of Puerto Rico certified as shelters, they found they had no water tanks or power generators. At that time, a copy of Act 88 sat on a desk.