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About 2,300 families are still in TSA-participating hotels in 28 U.S. states and Puerto Rico, according to FEMA.

“Those families who remain in hotels will at that point have no additional financial support in the housing side so they will for all intents and purposes become homeless,” said Tara Parrish of the Pioneer Valley Project, an organization lobbying FEMA for longer-term subsidies.

And while FEMA has also offered to pay for airline tickets for those seeking to return to the island, families note that they don’t have a home to return to.

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