Highlighted Current Efforts -Community based relief housing.

Over 90 thousand families in Puerto Rico live in flood zones. This represents a constant life threating circumstance for the families and a reoccurring drain on Federal and State resources.

The common-sense goal of relocation has to be executed in a manner that induces persons to move and expels the common fears of displacement.

Though Municipal cooperation and NGO participation Torrado is leading such an effort with the creation of two communities that will serve the relocation of 200 families.One of the key factors will be that families will be moving only one quater of a mile from the current community. This is very important to the residents and it is mandated by the Federal Anti-Displacement Act of 1974.