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[04:37.15]They're displacing native Puerto Ricans.
[04:40.15]-Yes. -Absolutely.
[04:41.24]With the famous 30-day notice letter that asks us to leave.
[04:45.12]And now, where do I go?
[04:46.100]What if they charge me over there something I can't pay?
[04:51.12]There are big economic interests at play.
[04:54.21]And it's going on in all of Puerto Rico.
[04:56.46]We'll be foreigners in our own land.
[04:59.63]We must organize, ma'am.
[05:01.97]Because when those below move,
[05:04.55]those above come tumbling down.
[05:07.22]Come on now! Less talking and more eating!
[05:10.73]Help yourselves, you're my guests.
[05:13.23]I haven't had this in a while.
[05:15.11]God bless this flavor.
[05:16.65]Amen!
[05:18.53]This is Puerto Rico.
[05:26.08]But life here isn't the same for everyone.
[05:29.75]Some arrive with advantages and benefits.
[05:32.92]And some have been here forever
[05:34.71]and are now feeling displaced.
[05:37.38]And take away what belongs to them.
[05:41.30]But there are also those who created these conditions.
[05:47.01]And those who hold the power to change them.
[06:02.78]PEOPLE LIVE HERE
[06:05.20]Story by Bianca Graulau
[06:08.16]They left this at my door.
[06:11.37]"You must vacate and deliver these facilities within thirty days.
[06:16.50]Thank you for your time here.
[06:18.29]We wish you the best."
[06:20.13]Maricusa came to Puerto Rico from the Dominican Republic
[06:23.09]in the 1990s.
[06:24.63]I clean, I cook, I wash clothes, I iron them.
[06:26.76]Everything related to housekeeping...
[06:28.85]Count on me because I like and enjoy what I do.
[06:32.02]She's been renting this apartment in Santurce for almost 26 years.
[06:36.69]My daughter used to sleep here with her youngest son, Christopher.
[06:40.98]But in May, she received a letter telling her to leave
[06:44.15]because the building had a new owner.
[06:46.53]I said, "I'm leaving whenever I find another place
[06:50.62]where I can keep what I need and send my things."
[06:54.87]And in other words, he said,
[06:56.08]"You have so many things here. Just throw them away,"
[06:59.25]as a way of pressuring me to leave immediately.
[07:02.84]What I was paying
[07:04.63]wasn't enough for them to cover costs,
[07:06.51]and me staying here
[07:07.64]was causing them to lose money.
[07:10.43]If I'm paying 600 and some crazy person comes and offers 2,500...
[07:14.89]He said this was going to be rented for $2,500.
[07:18.56]The average monthly income of a Puerto Rican household
[07:20.90]is less than $1,800.
[07:23.82]They're displacing Puerto Ricans
[07:26.65]to get rich with what's from here,
[07:30.66]with what's native from here.
[07:33.04]The new owners of the building where Maricusa lives
[07:35.58]are a company that buys and resells properties.
[07:39.25]And they're already reselling it at 1.5 million dollars.
[07:43.25]The ad says they only accept cash offers.
[07:46.67]And that tenants can vacate in 30 days.
[07:49.64]It's abusive.
[07:51.01]I'm already 68.
[07:52.22]There are people much older than me
[07:54.10]who have spent half of their lives or half a century here.
[07:57.18]Throwing them away with no repercussions...
[07:59.23]It hurts.
[08:00.48]This is the neighborhood where I was born
[08:03.52]The little corner where I used to live...
[08:06.78]My great-great-grandmother, my great-grandmother,
[08:08.86]my grandmother, my mom, and myself,
[08:10.78]were born here, as were my kids.
[08:12.32]I always say that because I was born in Puerta de Tierra,
[08:14.58]I want to die in Puerta de Tierra.
[08:17.16]The neighborhood of Puerta de Tierra is the entrance to the inlet of San Juan.
[08:20.29]It's where the Puerto Rico Capitol is located,
[08:22.29]next to famous Old San Juan.
[08:27.09]As you see, we're in front of the San Juan Bay.
[08:30.01]It's a privileged place, it's a treasure for millionaires and rich people.
[08:35.01]But this wasn't always a coveted place.
[08:37.22]Enslaved people lived in Puerta de Tierra
[08:40.19]after obtaining their liberty
[08:41.60]because the high classes wanted to keep them outside the city walls of San Juan.
[08:45.52]Eventually, those slums became public housing projects.
[08:49.03]But in the past two decades, the government of Puerto Rico
[08:51.82]has torn down a thousand public housing units
[08:54.87]for low-income families.
[08:56.66]Where are we now? How's this place called?
[08:58.45]This is Condominio Las Acacias, in Puerta de Tierra.
[09:01.29]Where I was raised.
[09:04.92]Public housing projects are the heart of Puerta de Tierra.
[09:08.55]If they remove us, Puerta de Tierra will die.
[09:10.63]If they remove the housing projects, Puerta de Tierra will die.
[09:14.05]I lived there. For 54 years, I lived on that corner.
[09:17.01]Look at it now: a building, a new housing project for the rich.
[09:20.52]I was born there, and I can't go in there.
[09:22.52]Because we're Black and poor they're abusing us, you know?
[09:26.61]And it isn't fair to be displaced by economic interests.
[09:30.94]They want us to leave.
[09:32.74]No, we were born here. They are the ones that should leave.
[09:35.32]The only thing those millionaire investors have done for us
[09:39.83]is rocking us to sleep.
[09:41.29]Rock-a-bye, baby
[09:43.75]On the tree top
[09:46.29]We'll soon throw you out
[09:49.34]Of your community
[09:52.51]I used to live over there. Down the corridor to the right.
[09:57.01]Laura Mía González lived in this private apartment building
[10:00.35]until she received a notice in 2019
[10:02.98]saying that the building had a new owner and she had to vacate in 30 days.
[10:07.52]Well, at the time I felt frustrated.
[10:11.74]Firstly, because people were living there for almost 30 years.
[10:15.45]When you've lived 30 years in the same place,
[10:18.66]you establish a relationship with the community.
[10:21.37]Twenty-one families had to leave the La Ferretería building.
[10:25.33]You can't come here with a colonizer's mentality,
[10:28.96]thinking that people don't live here
[10:31.13]or that the people that did can be discarded with an eviction letter
[10:36.14]thinking they'll just find some other place.
[10:39.80]Laura Mía paid a $300 rent for her apartment.
[10:43.27]Today, the La Ferretería apartment units
[10:45.90]are short-term rentals that cost $150 per night.
[10:49.94]No one is saying that it isn't a profitable business.
[10:53.15]This is a great business, and even more so if you almost don't pay taxes.
[10:57.49]Puerto Rico, where I'm from,
[10:59.08]is becoming an increasingly popular place to move
[11:02.16]among wealthy Americans.
[11:03.62]It's the tax incentives that make Puerto Rico very appealing,
[11:06.87]specifically Act 22.
[11:08.33]And crucially, the island has become a tax haven for the wealthy.
[11:11.96]There's a law in Puerto Rico that allows foreigners
[11:14.46]to avoid paying certain taxes when they move here.
[11:16.88]It's called Act 22, which is now a part of Act 60.
[11:19.84]With this law, when someone moves to Puerto Rico,
[11:22.64]they don't pay any capital gains taxes
[11:25.60]on things such as stocks, cryptocurrency, or real estate.
[11:29.48]I'm moving to Puerto Rico!
[11:30.86]It's like the only place you can live
[11:32.52]with zero percent capital gains.
[11:35.11]There are more than three thousand people benefiting from that law.
[11:40.53]These benefits, compounded with the low property prizes
[11:43.54]after Hurricane Maria,
[11:45.25]are an opportunity for some.
[11:48.100]Puerto Rico!
[11:50.29]Puerto Rico is an absolute gold mine for real estate investing...
[11:54.21]Oh, my gosh! The tax advantages...
[11:56.55]Puerto Rico is the best place for you to buy real estate in 2022.
[12:01.55]The new owner of the La Ferretería building
[12:03.81]is an Act 22 beneficiary.
[12:06.18]Chaim Meir Hazan has bought 15 properties in Puerta de Tierra,
[12:09.77]but he isn't the only one.
[12:11.36]Since 2018, eight Act 22 beneficiaries
[12:14.82]have acquired at least 28 properties in the neighborhood.
[12:18.03]I call them colonizing invaders because they behave as such.
[12:23.03]Of course, the government has delivered the country to them on a silver platter.
[12:27.79]One of the 28 properties the Act 22 beneficiaries bought
[12:31.79]used to be a public school.
[12:34.21]My school. I learned to read here.
[12:37.34]I used to play here with Vico C!
[12:39.80]Sixth grade. Miss Martínez.
[12:41.97]She was my aunt, my mom's sister.
[12:43.93]There. Sixth grade.
[12:46.14]Martin G. Brumbaugh School is one of the more than 600 schools
[12:49.31]the government of Puerto Rico has closed in the past ten years.
[12:52.94]Don't close the school!
[12:54.36]Don't close the school!
[12:55.86]Don't close the school!
[12:57.69]Now, this school will be an apartment building with a sea view.
[13:01.53]When the day ended, you could see whales coming to give birth.
[13:05.41]The teachers would take us to see the show.
[13:09.33]I get teary-eyed every time I come by here.
[13:11.21]I'm holding back the tears but...
[13:15.21]Many properties bought by beneficiaries are then dedicated to tourism.
[13:21.59]Some scholars compare the tourism economy
[13:25.85]with the plantation economy.
[13:29.35]Because the United States invaded and took possession of Puerto Rico
[13:32.31]by the end of the 19th century,
[13:34.52]U.S. sugar companies were enabled to take over the land.
[13:38.94]They hired Puerto Ricans as workers
[13:41.28]and paid them low wages that kept them in poverty.
[13:45.03]Today, Puerto Rico is still a U.S. possession
[13:48.45]and these incentives give Americans an advantage
[13:52.16]and invite them to buy properties in Puerto Rico.
[13:54.75]These properties frequently become vacation rentals
[13:58.55]under the promise of service industry jobs for the local population.
[14:02.09]The result is a foreign owner that hoards all the profits.
[14:05.64]... three words in English!
[14:07.93]Gringo, go home!
[14:10.10]Gringo...
[14:11.18]Yankee, go home!
[14:12.68]Yankee, go home!
[14:14.81]Act 20 and Act 22
[14:16.56]will allow gringos to come here
[14:18.86]to speculate with our lands.
[14:23.53]This attack, which has been from a racial point of view
[14:28.28]or due to race or class...
[14:30.08]It's complicated.
[14:31.37]Simply saying, "Gringo, go home", or those sorts of things
[14:35.58]certainly doesn't contribute to the country's political stability.
[14:38.79]Rafael "Tatito" Hernández is one of the Puerto Rican politicians
[14:42.01]that have received donations from Act 22 beneficiaries.
[14:45.30]In the past three years, they have contributed more than $240,000
[14:50.39]to the political campaigns of the Governor
[14:52.52]and the leaders of the Puerto Rico Legislature.
[14:55.18]The Governor received the most significant amount of money.
[14:58.48]I'm very passionate about this issue.
[15:00.15]I come from humble beginnings, and I know what it is like to go to school,
[15:03.74]and see the communities' social situations and their disadvantages.
[15:07.11]But we can't stop development.
[15:10.53]The most significant contributor to the leading political figures
[15:13.45]is Brian Tenenbaum.
[15:14.96]You do Act 22, it's a no-brainer.
[15:17.58]The person who bought the school of the Puerta de Tierra community.
[15:21.30]They see that the government is taking resources away from them
[15:24.84]and serving them on a silver platter to people with a lot of money.
[15:28.14]Don't you see it that way?
[15:29.22]Yes. Of course.
[15:31.22]Puerta de Tierra is a case...
[15:32.93]If you analyze it and have seen the community throughout many years...
[15:36.64]It's been in shambles for 40 years.
[15:38.77]So this is how they're renovating, in some way or another,
[15:42.69]an area that was truly in a very pressing situation.
[15:45.69]It still is.
[15:46.78]This is an issue of supply and demand.
[15:48.32]Many people selling to these investors are from the community themselves.
[15:52.53]But it's not just housing and schools,
[15:54.37]another resource at risk are Puerto Rican beaches.
[16:07.38]According to law, all beaches in Puerto Rico are public.
[16:10.14]But some believe they are being taken away from the people
[16:12.51]by construction sites.
[16:15.47]Or that entrances are being closed, like in Dorado.
[16:20.94]Dorado hosts beachfront mansions and luxury hotels.
[16:24.61]According to law, there must be multiple entrances
[16:26.74]through those private terrains
[16:28.44]to allow people to get to the coast.
[16:31.03]But in recent years, they have been closed.
[16:33.78]Now the only entrance available is through the public beach.
[16:38.08]If we want to get to that beach over there we have to walk all the way there?
[16:41.38]All the way there.
[16:42.46]There's no other entrance.
[16:45.30]Rosa Rivera Martínez works as a house cleaner in Dorado Beach.
[16:48.72]I think that where I work I do a bit more than just cleaning.
[16:51.97]I give a little bit of that flavor of...
[16:54.68]Puerto Rico!
[16:56.18]But during her off days, Ros...........
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