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Residential, Government
A woman in her eighties facing an eviction order from the two-bedroom house she has rented for 27 years in Urbanización Roosevelt, Hato Rey, San Juan, has completed the paperwork to begin the search for a permanent home and has shown interest in a unit at one of the housing projects presented to her, elvocero.com reported on Thursday, October 15, 2026. The Puerto Rico Department of Housing will coordinate a visit by her lawyer to the available unit in the complex she chose, a department spokesperson told the outlet.
Source: El Vocero and RED Atlas
Government
Cataño's incoming municipal administration will create a Demographic Task Force to find structures and spaces that can become housing, the town's new mayor wrote in a column in elvocero.com on Friday, October 16, 2026, as the administration prepared to take office on Saturday, October 17.
Source: El Vocero and RED Atlas
San Juan - Development, Infrastructure, Government
The Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DRNA) is rehabilitating the De Diego flood-control pump station in Santurce, San Juan, and the project has cleared two early reviews, according to filings in the government permits portal that RED Atlas tracks. The station is at Ave. De Diego, Parada 22, at the corner of Calle Julián Blanco and Calle Estrella. The filings place the work in the department's capital improvements program to rebuild facilities damaged by Hurricane María (federal disaster 4339-DR).
Source: RED Atlas
Residential, Infrastructure, Government
The Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority opened one of the large floodgates of the Carraízo dam in Trujillo Alto on Sunday, releasing water in a controlled way to lower the reservoir by several centimeters, telemundopr.com reported.
Source: Telemundo Puerto Rico and RED Atlas
Residential, Development, Government
Puerto Rico's governor delivered a rebuilt two-bedroom home to its owner in Bayamón on Friday, October 9, 2026, a house rebuilt for $424,000 in federal money that drew sharp criticism on social media, notiuno.com reported. The housing secretary, a representative and a senator joined the governor at the handover.
Source: NotiUno and RED Atlas
Development, Infrastructure, Government
The US Department of Homeland Security opened a joint facility worth nearly $22 million for US Customs and Border Protection and the US Coast Guard at the Port of Ponce, Puerto Rico, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, according to the department's announcement as published by the World Border Security Congress. The new complex stands next to the historic United States Custom House.
Source: world-border-congress.com and RED Atlas
Yabucoa - Development, Infrastructure, Government
Yabucoa's municipal cemetery is the site of a public works project to remodel its entrances, and the project has cleared an environmental review, according to permit filings analysed by RED Atlas. The sponsor is the Municipio de Yabucoa, and the project, Rehabilitación Cementerio Municipal, Yabucoa, sits at Calle, Núm. 1, Urb. Reparto Horizonte, Bo. Pueblo Yabucoa, Puerto Rico 00767.
Source: RED Atlas
Residential, Infrastructure, Government
Water rationing with rotating 48-hour shutoffs had reached more than 180,000 households in parts of the San Juan metropolitan area by August 10, 2026, three days after it began on Friday, August 7, ntd.com reported on August 10. The governor had declared a state of emergency on July 31.
Source: NTD and RED Atlas
Infrastructure, Government
The House Speaker and the representative for District 11, which covers Dorado, Vega Alta and Vega Baja, planned to visit the Manuel 'Nolo' Morales public beach in Dorado on Friday, October 16, to set a path for rehabilitating and restoring it, metro.pr reported on October 12. The beach sits on state road PR-697 in the Costa de Oro sector.
Source: Metro Puerto Rico and RED Atlas
Residential, Development, Government
The executive director of Puerto Rico's Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda said about 1,500 affordable housing units were impacted over the past 22 months, and he singled out a project for older adults on Ponce de León in San Juan, elvocero.com reported.
Source: El Vocero and RED Atlas
Ceiba - Development, Infrastructure, Government
The public body redeveloping the former Roosevelt Roads naval station has two approved filings for a project of improvements to the station's electric power grid, according to permit filings analysed by RED Atlas. The project is Roosevelt Roads Electrical Power Grid Improvements - FEMA PA DR-4339 Project 95275, at Carr. PR-3, Km 51.4, Bo. Ceiba, Puerto Rico 00735.
Source: RED Atlas
