Figure 1
Vacancy rates for Puerto Rico. Source: https://data.census.gov.
Figure 2
Occupy initiatives/Author compilation based on collaborations and site visits.
Figure 3
Casa Taft 169 in 2012 (left) and 2016 (right)/By Photographs by the author.
Figure 4
Children at Pedro G. Goyco school weeks before its closure (2015)/Photograph by the author.
Figure 5
Messages found on blackboards in October 2017: “Why they close a school with 197 students while they keep schools with less than 100 open?”; Unfair!!!”; “They close a school to replace it with a different one“ (left) “There are teachers, moms and many more students very depressed by this injustice” (center)/Photographs by the author.
Figure 6
Vacation rentals in Machuchal in November 2022 (left) and August 2023 (right)/airdna.co (screenshots)/Photographs by the author.