EMA’s Transitional Shelter Assistance Program, which is providing short-term housing assistance to about 2,300 families that are still displaced and living in hotels, is set to end on June 30, leaving some of those families with nowhere to go.
“I’d have to practically be in the streets,” said Cancél Rodriguez, whose sons are 10 and 13. “Over there and here it is the same. I have nothing.”
On Wednesday, more than 100 people displaced by the hurricane traveled to Washington to meet with lawmakers to ask that FEMA activate its Disaster Housing Assistance Plan, a program with the Department of Housing and Urban Development that provides longer-term subsidies to help families get apartments and pay rent after a natural disaster.
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