The nonprofit All Hands and Hearts arrived here in January 2018, to fix roofs in...
YABUCOA, Puerto Rico - The nonprofit All Hands and Hearts arrived here in January 2018, to fix roofs in the rural town where Hurricane Maria made its first, most damaging landfall.
The volunteer-based organization can only move so fast. And while many homeowners have applied for aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency , it has been hard to come by in a town whose barrios lack street names and addresses, and many residents lack title to their homes. “There’s still a lot of work to be done,” Franks said.
Two days later, Jenniffer Gonzalez, Puerto Rico’s nonvoting member of Congress and a fellow Republican, proposed appointing a “federal coordinator” to provide “direct federal oversight” over Puerto Rico’s recovery. Ongoing unrest “will have an enormous adverse effect on federal officials disbursing” aid, Bhatia said. “Hundreds of thousands of poor families are suffering ... The question for me and the leadership of Puerto Rico is how to restore that credibility.”
And the Rosselló administration has come under fire for scenes of rotting food in trailers that never left port, and for being too slow in distributing aid through a nonprofit championed by First Lady Beatriz Rosselló. Local media have reported Justice Secretary Wanda Vazquez - who could replace Rosselló in the governor’s mansion - refused to investigate some of these problems.
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