House With Tarp On Roof Puerto Rico

Frustrated neighbors are helping others repair their homes.

House with tarp on roof puerto rico.

The giant protests are gone now from the streets of puerto rico. San juan puerto rico ap nearly three years after hurricane maria tore through puerto rico tens of thousands of homes remain badly damaged many people face a hurricane season under fading blue tarp roofs and the island s first major program to repair and rebuild houses hasn t completed a single one. A woman walks by a house with the blue tarp that was used to protect the roof damaged by hurricane maria two years ago. Puerto rico still recovering as hurricane sea.

Tarps that are frayed. A puerto rican. Her husband with cancer under tarp gets new house. Puerto rican mom who gets new house from heart 9 11.

Coverings that do little or nothing to protect the residents from ba. Governor privatizes power company by ben fox the associated press june 21 2018 at 3 36 a m. Thousands wait for roofs in puerto rico. Over 30 000 houses and apartments in puerto rico still have blue tarps instead of roofs.

Tarp roofs remain in puerto rico repairs at snail s pace. Updated june 21 2018 at 3 36 a m. Tarps are in short supply in puerto rico in the wake of hurricane maria. San juan puerto rico hurricane maria ripped away part of the steel roof from carmen lidia torres mercado s home in the puerto rican capital.

An abandoned house in humacao. Two years after the storm hit puerto rico the most visible remnants of it are the thousands of damaged homes still covered in blue tarps. Up to 30 000 homes remain covered by blue roof tarps that were supposed to be temporary. Puerto rico faces uneven and underfunded recovery.