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Pending Matters
In addition to addressing the public health emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the government of Puerto Rico has an agenda full of pending issues. Among these are the restructuring of the central government’s debt; setting in motion the reconstruction of the infrastructure that was damaged by the 2017 hurricanes and this year’s earthquakes; and the modernization of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (“PREPA”), among other matters.
Providing pandemic rental assistance in Puerto Rico
We carried out a rough calculation that yielded a conservative estimate of how much would be needed to expand the Housing Choice Voucher program, in order to provide pandemic rental assistance in Puerto Rico that meets the needs of its low-income renters. Continue reading to see our findings.