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FEMA Stopped Paying for Hotels for Displaced Puerto Ricans. Now Some Are Homeless.

This story was originally published by HuffPost. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s been a year since Hurricane Maria upended Jennyfer Ortiz’s life. The single mother fled Puerto Rico with her two children after their house in the mountain town of Orocovis lost power. They have been using a government-funded program to pay for a hotel in the Bronx, but that ended last week, forcing Ortiz, her 20-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter into a homeless shelter. “Maria changed our lives—ruined our lives—and left us with nothing.

 

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