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Envisioning Community-led Climate Adaptation and Housing Mobility in San Juan, Puerto Rico

May 28, 2022 – Jun 6, 2022
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Research Question

How can land management strategies such as community land trusts support climate adaptation and housing mobility in flood prone communities with histories of spatial exclusion and colonial oppression?

Methodology and Process

This workshop will be conducted in partnership with La Corporacion del Proyecto ENLACE del Cano Martin Pena (ENLACE) and faculty at the Graduate School of Planning at the University of Puerto Rico Recinto de Rio Piedras. ENLACE, which represents a network of eight communities in San Juan, has innovated internationally acclaimed land management strategies to regularize land tenure and support the relocation of at-risk households in flood prone informal settlements on San Juan’s Cano Martin Pena estuary. These strategies include the creation of a community land trust which manages 281 acres of land and has assisted 700 households in the property acquisition and relocation process. However, they are doing this work in a challenging environment. Faced with a $72 billion debt, and the continued recovery of the island in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico’s economic conditions have deteriorated causing waves of out migration. At the same time, foreign investment in reconstruction has led to increased gentrification and displacement in Puerto Rico.

The workshop will consist of a series of site visits and workshops to study how organizations like ENLACE are innovating land management strategies which support climate adaptation and housing mobility. Students will be organized in teams to visit ENLACE’s constituent communities to explore alternative land-uses for flood prone areas recovered through relocations and financing strategies for the building of affordable housing.

Output and Findings

The goal will be to construct case studies and compare them to cases with related challenges in New York City such as Edgemere, Queens and Oakwood Beach, Staten Island. The workshop’s output will be images, short videos and a report which documents and summarizes the analysis of land management and housing mobility strategies in flood prone areas which face the threats of declining land values and market speculation.

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