Antonio Carmona Báez

1. Affordable Housing and Self-Organized Housing Practices In many areas where access to affordable housing is limited, people resort to building their own homes. While this is a common practice, the unprecedented growth of cities has led to an increase in the scale of this process [1,2]. In fact, most of the world’s dwelling delivery is organized in this way, including housing on various Caribbean islands [3,4].

This summer, the Netherlands and the world came to know Puerto Rico through the all-time most popular music video Despacito, which received over 3 billion hits on Youtube. But Puerto Rico has never been mentioned in Dutch news as much as it had throughout the last three weeks. First with Hurricane Irma which -besides depopulating smaller islands, nearly destroyed the Dutch and French territory of neighbouring St. Maarten, bringing 600 refugees to Puerto Rican hospitals and shelters.