Soto-Class said: "But you need to have oversight that works. But he said he remains confident that money will flow in a timely manner and with proper oversight, because relationships between the local and federal governments have "significantly improved over the past year," he said. "There's always been concern about the ability of the government of Puerto Rico to effectively manage a level of money that so vastly exceeds their normal annual operating budgets," Brown said. Puerto Rico has received $16.7 billion, according to its Office of Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience. But most of the money, specifically funds for housing and infrastructure relief, hasn't made its way to communities on the island. The federal government has allocated nearly $50 billion to help the island with multiple disasters. A man walks by downed electricity poles in the Punta Santiago beachfront neighborhood in Humacao, Puerto Rico, on Dec. Well over 9,800 tremors have been registered on the island since then.Ĭoronavirus cases and deaths are also rising in Puerto Rico as the island grapples with austerity measures while it works to get out of the largest municipal bankruptcy proceeding in U.S. In December, Puerto Rico was hit by a sequence of seismic events that triggered multiple strong earthquakes that brought down hundreds of homes and schools in January.
Hurricane Maria resulted in about $90 billion in damage, making it the third costliest hurricane in U.S. "I don't think it's an exaggeration to talk about this as a life-or-death issue, because that's exactly what we're seeing." "If you put somebody in power, here in Puerto Rico or in the U.S., that's not prepared to lead, it's going to cost you lives, and it's going to cost you progress," said Miguel Soto-Class, founder and president of the Center for a New Economy, a nonpartisan think tank.
Puerto rico hurricane aftermath 2017 series#
Three years later, there's frustration that crises have only compounded - there have been a series of destructive earthquakes and, more recently, the coronavirus pandemic - while the Trump administration and island officials haven't made any real progress updating the island's antiquated electrical grid and rebuilding destroyed houses.
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