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Housing Crisis in Florida: The Puerto Rican Face of Evictions

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Marilyn Vázquez’s smile fades when she recalls her experiences in 2022. It’s not easy to recount how she ended up on the streets, gave away most of her belongings, and crammed what was left into a hotel room in Kissimmee, Florida, where she lived for a year. It’s difficult for her to talk about it because she knows this scenario could happen again at any moment. “No one tells you how to survive if you have to live in a hotel, what you must do,” she says. “I spent six months crying.

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‘The Most Horrible Night of My Life:’ Hurricane Milton Leaves Chaos Behind

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As the sky began to clear around 6:30 a.m. on Thursday, Madeline Colón and her husband, Flor Colón, decided to check on their home on Shadow Brook Lane in the Palmetto community, west of Florida. “It was the most horrible night of my life,” as she described the onslaught of Hurricane Milton. Fallen trees, flooded streets, and destroyed houses were the scene on their way home. These were the consequences of Milton’s winds, reaching 120 mph and whose eye entered Florida Wednesday night in the Sarasota area. The death toll associated with the hurricane already exceeds a dozen.