The Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ) is planning to help Hurricane Maria survivors in Puerto Rico leave the island to stay in temporary housing in New York and Florida .
Typically , FEMA’sTransitional Shelter Assistance Programprovides the funding and resources to domiciliate those maroon from disasters — be it in a shelter , hotel , or motel — within their state . fly them out of state and overseas though ? That does n’t really find . Like ever . Puerto Rico , however , gift a unparalleled situation : Hotels are at capacity , andmore than 2,000 peopleremain in shelter .
So the agency is attend to the U.S. mainland , alternatively , particularly states that already harbor large Puerto Rican community , per Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello ’s request . presently , FEMA is in talks with New York and Florida to figure out the logistics to make this materialize expeditiously .
This would involve creating architectural plan before families fly — on FEMA ’s dime — to ensure they stay together and have priming transportation upon arriving at the mainland airports .
“ A thousand miles adds a whole level of complexity to this , ” FEMA coordinating officeholder Mike Byrne secernate CBS News , which firstreportedthis Wednesday .
The thing is , though , people do n’t need to leave the island . They do n’t want to pass on place . By Tuesday , only about 30 out of 300 family the agency asked were interested in taking part in the cognitive operation , allot to CBS .
“ We need to give them every opportunity we can to be able to persist here , whether it ’s providing fiscal aid or repairing their homes , ” Byrne tell CBS . “ So we are going to work heavily on those affair so hoi polloi do n’t have to leave behind . ”
That has n’t stopped citizenry from leaving , nor will it . The Centre for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College in New York estimated , in an October paper , that the island ’s population will cast off by 14 per centum between 2017 and 2019 .
school in New York City have been busysince early Octoberpreparing for an inflow of Puerto Rican children ; so have Florida ’s schools . In Orlando , more than1,300 Puerto Rican studentshave already conjoin the classroom . This is before the FEMA operation . reckon after .
As Newsday reported , New York City ’s housing situation is already separate out , so it ’s undecipherable how the the metropolis will prepare for even more resident — specially those who do n’t have New York family or root .
Without those tie-up in place , home in Puerto Rico might be less likely to leave home . But with the island father just 43 percent of its total great power and many homes gaining poweronly to fall back it again , leaving might be their only option .
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