Puertorlando
I grew up in Orlando. Against my will. My parents dragged me here in the late 1980s from New York City. Perhaps they felt the same when they migrated with…
UCF Restores Opens a Clinic to Serve the Needs of Displaced Puerto Rican Families
Puerto Rican families displaced by Hurricanes Maria and Irma can get free counseling at the newly opened UCF Restores clinic. The clinic located at the Episcopal Church of Jesus of…
Puerto Ricans struggled more in Central Florida
Arieliss Valencia, a recent transplant from Puerto Rico, sits next to her son Anthony, right a fifth-grader at Riverdale Elementary School, after school supplies were handed out to the student…
FEMA’s housing assistance program for Puerto Rican families ends
About 40 families displaced from Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria may end up on the streets of Central Florida. (Spectrum News image) BY PAULA MACHADO ORANGE COUNTY ORLANDO, Fla. — FEMA's Transitional Sheltering…
Puerto Rican families in Central Florida get assistance after FEMA cutoff
Checks presented to evacuees made homeless by Hurricane Maria https://youtu.be/h2k05xTc5bQ OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. – The Hispanic Federation, in partnership with other community organizations, presented $1,000 checks to the remaining Puerto Rican…
FEMA cuts off housing funds for 987 Puerto Rican families who fled Hurricane Maria
WASHINGTON — As Hurricane Florence begins to lash the Carolinas, FEMA officials are about to boot nearly 1,000 American families from the hotel rooms around the country where they've lived…
Huracán María: Puertorriqueños desplazados piden ayuda para no quedarse en la calle
https://youtu.be/Vyzl0Kb08Rk En un último intento de encontrar un lugar para vivir, familias boricuas desplazadas en Florida tras el huracán María imploraron por una extensión de ayuda. El plazo para que…
A punto de quedarse sin techo boricuas refugiados en Estados Unidos
La negativa a extender el programa de refugio temporero federal ha dejado a decenas de familias puertorriqueñas de la Florida Central en el limbo https://youtu.be/DyCJx_Z3FUU Orlando/Kissimee - Los llaman “los de FEMA”,…
Judge Sets End Date for Puerto Rico Hurricane Survivors’ Housing Aid
People still staying in taxpayer-funded hotels and motels under the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Transitional Shelter Assistance program, commonly called TSA, will be allowed to stay until Sept. 14. A…
Critican decisión de no extender vales de TSA a boricuas desplazados
https://youtu.be/ru4EjZgftb0 Entidades cívicas y líderes gubernamentales reaccionaron a la decisión de un juez federal que negó la solicitud para extender el de programa de Asistencia de Refugio de Transición (TSA,…