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Cars, cots and plastic chairs became temporary beds for hundreds of families who lost their homes in southwest Puerto Rico as a flurry of earthquakes struck the island, one of them the strongest ...
The Puerto Rico Department of Housing, created in 1972, [9] succeeded the Urban Renewal and Housing Corporation, or Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda (CRUV, its Spanish acronym), [10] which was created in the late 1950s to succeed the Puerto Rico Housing Authority, created by Gov. Luis Muñoz Marín and headed by Juan César Cordero ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry landed in Puerto Rico on Tuesday, as questions as to why he had not returned to his country swirled amid escalating gang violence that ...
According to the count by the Puerto Rico Department of Family, in January 2017 there were 3,501 homeless persons in the territory. The study shows that 26 percent of this population lives in the capital, San Juan. Other municipality's percentage of this population was Ponce at 6.3 percent, Arecibo at six percent, Caguas at 5.3 percent, and ...
Ponce, Puerto Rico: Type: Non-profit NGO: Legal status: 501(c)(3) Purpose: Provide short and long-term residential safe space and support services for homeless, orphan boys. Headquarters: Calle Villa Final, Ponce, Puerto Rico: Services: Drop-in center, Street Outreach Program, transitional living, and emergency housing shelter
For several decades, various cities and towns in the United States have adopted relocation programs offering homeless people one-way tickets to move elsewhere. [1] [2] Also referred to as "Greyhound therapy", [2] "bus ticket therapy" and "homeless dumping", [3] the practice was historically associated with small towns and rural counties, which had no shelters or other services, sending ...
I recently learned that there has been an upswing of homeless people sleeping outside in Cincinnati and Hamilton County. It was a discovery that outreach workers (who send data annually to the U.S ...
This list of U.S. states and territories by poverty rate covers the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of Puerto Rico and their populations' poverty rate. The four other inhabited U.S. territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) are listed separately.