Puerto Rico is focusing much of its recovery efforts on the development of tourism infrastructure and housing in hopes of putting both Hurricane Maria and COVID-19 behind it. Maria hit more than 786,000 homes on the island in September 2017, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing close to $100 billion in damage. COVID-19 caused a shut-down of much of the island economy, including tourism, which contributes billions of dollars per year to the economy of the U.S. territory.
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