Published Jun 1, 2018 at 12:49 PM | Updated at 1:23 PM PDT on Jun 3, 2018
In the eight months since Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico as a category 4 storm, much of the island and its residents still await aid and relief in wood shacks and temporary roofing made of plastic tarps.
Housing is the not the only problem to plague Puerto Rico after Maria - the island suffered the longest blackout in the history of the United States, with a flimsy $3.8 million grid repair all but guaranteed to fail when the next hurricane arrives. The official death toll was also found to be higher than officials thought, with a study claiming more than 4,500 deaths resulting from Hurricane Maria rather than the 64 deaths first reported.
