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Half The Houses In Puerto Rico Were Built Illegally.
As much as half of Puerto Rico’s housing was thrown together illegally by local handymen with materials scraped together and scavenged from dumps, the Miami Herald reports.
Read moreHalf of Puerto Rico’s housing was built illegally. Then came Hurricane Maria.
The ex-president of the Puerto Rico builders’ association, architect Ricardo Alvarez-Díaz, says estimates put the need for new dwellings at a range of 60,000 to 90,000 units in the next five years, depending on how large the post-Maria exodus of island residents to the mainland United States turns out to be.
Read morePuerto Rico address issues of “informal construction” after Hurricane Maria.
Hurricane Maria destroyed many structures in Puerto Rico, including what building officials described as “informal construction,” where building codes or permits were not followed.
Read moreFormal or informal? The eternal debate in the Puerto Rican construction.
In Puerto Rico, informal construction is of particular concern due to its vulnerability, but it is no less true that formal constructions have also evidenced its fragility. The controversy between the “security” of the formal and the “risk” of the informal is nothing new, but forces us to answer, what is the reason for this controversy?
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