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When it rains, water seeps through their patched roof into their salvaged furniture as well as the donated, hung clothes. Everything is constantly wet and full of mold. As a result, José states he has developed pneumonia. He was strongly advised by his doctor to stay home, as he would be in even greater danger if he remained in the hospital due to the large amounts of virus cases within the facility. December 27, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1538941342569-95FWPN9SYXDAVVLYT9KG/Puerto+Rico_LinaColladoGarcia_Dec2017-3.jpg Puerto Rico: Lost and Forgotten An elderly woman (75) lives in this house with her pets. She has “adopted” homeless dogs, and given them a shelter within an abandoned house that is in currently bad conditions since the hurricane. December 27, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1538941346735-EVWYMBNSI2F0K1WYCOTY/Puerto+Rico_LinaColladoGarcia_Dec2017-5.jpg Puerto Rico: Lost and Forgotten José Vazquez (78), in what is left of his home in San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico. When it rains, water seeps through their patched roof into their salvaged furniture as well as the donated, hung clothes. Everything is constantly wet and full of mold. As a result, José states he has developed pneumonia. He was strongly advised by his doctor to stay home, as he would be in even greater danger if he remained in the hospital due to the large amounts of virus cases within the facility. December 27, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1538941352306-M8064NDPX3JTZ9479O2O/Puerto+Rico_LinaColladoGarcia_Dec2017-7.jpg Puerto Rico: Lost and Forgotten José (78) and María Vazquez (65) in their home. Their home was passed down to him verbally by his father who had built the house more than 70 years ago on abandoned land. Without an official document, José was unable to prove ownership of his land when FEMA contacted him to follow up on his claim, leaving him without eligibility for federal disaster relief. This is true for one out of every five Puerto Rican homes. December 27, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1538941356056-2ZINV0BDQ4KBQ8RJNM6P/Puerto+Rico_LinaColladoGarcia_Dec2017-8.jpg Puerto Rico: Lost and Forgotten José (78) and María Vazquez (65) in their home. Their home was passed down to him verbally by his father who had built the house more than 70 years ago on abandoned land. Without an official document, José was unable to prove ownership of his land when FEMA contacted him to follow up on his claim, leaving him without eligibility for federal disaster relief. This is true for one out of every five Puerto Rican homes. December 27, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1538941357581-HAUQLDLG8TW7WR16ARFM/Puerto+Rico_LinaColladoGarcia_Dec2017-9.jpg Puerto Rico: Lost and Forgotten José (78) and María Vazquez (65) in their home. Their home was passed down to him verbally by his father who had built the house more than 70 years ago on abandoned land. Without an official document, José was unable to prove ownership of his land when FEMA contacted him to follow up on his claim, leaving him without eligibility for federal disaster relief. This is true for one out of every five Puerto Rican homes. December 27, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1538941361317-61670ALTODSZ8BHESK0F/Puerto+Rico_LinaColladoGarcia_Dec2017-10.jpg Puerto Rico: Lost and Forgotten Virginia (39) and her son Oscar Manuel (3), spend their afternoon in what is left of their home, a two-walled house without a roof. During the months following the hurricane, not having a roof became very problematic during very sunny days, or the daily rainstorm. Virginia and Oscar have twice already visited the hospital for suffering severe sunburns. Virginia now has some blue tarps for a roof - placed by the support of a religious organization. December 27, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1538941363109-G3ARU46W07OLNL20CFPE/Puerto+Rico_LinaColladoGarcia_Dec2017-11.jpg Puerto Rico: Lost and Forgotten Virginia (39) and her son Oscar Manuel (3), spend their afternoon in what is left of their home, a two-walled house without a roof. During the months following the hurricane, not having a roof became very problematic during very sunny days, or the daily rainstorm. Virginia and Oscar have twice already visited the hospital for suffering severe sunburns. Virginia now has some blue tarps for a roof - placed by the support of a religious organization. December 27, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1538941367674-SRX39C4I0W6WTLGJ22KB/Puerto+Rico_LinaColladoGarcia_Dec2017-12.jpg Puerto Rico: Lost and Forgotten A side of the street filled with debris in Canóvanas, Puerto Rico. A sight very commonly seen in every corner of the island, four months after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico. December 27, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1538941368595-KUJDT6PXHB1RO5OTY1PD/Puerto+Rico_LinaColladoGarcia_Dec2017-13.jpg Puerto Rico: Lost and Forgotten In a neighborhood within Canóvanas - located in the northeastern region of the island - the Olea family stands strong refusing to leave. During the past four months over fifteen families have left their neighborhood due to the unsanitary and virtually uninhabitable conditions. What is left of their neighborhood is now surrounded by wet mud and debris with dwellings covered by blue tarps. December 27, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1538941372348-G4RP6HH48A5Z8UW4L2G5/Puerto+Rico_LinaColladoGarcia_Dec2017-14.jpg Puerto Rico: Lost and Forgotten Isiamaris (4), and her brother inside enjoying a cold glass of water while their only generator powered utility cools bottled water. Powering their one refrigerator through a generator costs nearly $400 a month in gas and currently live with a constant smell of gas and noise that emanates from myriad of generators that run throughout the night. Olea’s family all rely on bottled water for drinking, and do their laundry with rainwater. December 27, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1538941373352-AWEE84PDEBPI069UE4GN/Puerto+Rico_LinaColladoGarcia_Dec2017-15.jpg Puerto Rico: Lost and Forgotten In a neighborhood within Canóvanas - located in the northeastern region of the island - the Olea family stands strong refusing to leave. During the past four months over fifteen families have left their neighborhood due to the unsanitary and virtually uninhabitable conditions. What is left of their neighborhood is now surrounded by wet mud and debris with dwellings covered by blue tarps. December 27, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1538941378719-F0O8A935IZ8X8RKRLJM7/Puerto+Rico_LinaColladoGarcia_Dec2017-16.jpg Puerto Rico: Lost and Forgotten On December 28, 2018 this road was still completely impassable since the storm, on September 21, 2017. This road provided access to one house with several families residing in it, whom had to cross the river in order to get to town for 4+ months. December 28, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1538941379309-K38JUS43BPA47OK86VNP/Puerto+Rico_LinaColladoGarcia_Dec2017-17.jpg Puerto Rico: Lost and Forgotten Both four years old, demonstrated how it worked to travel in the only “safe” way to get across Río Grande river in Utuado immediately after Hurricane María. It consists of a basket and pulley system attached to a wire suspended above the river. In order to get to town, work, school or get basic supplies like food, water, and gas, the families had to use the pulley system. Today, a temporary bridge was built, but the neighborhood refuses to take it down - as it was their lifeline for 100+ days. December 28, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1538941386181-V5P52FIJH7RTB8SNGFLS/Puerto+Rico_LinaColladoGarcia_Dec2017-18.jpg Puerto Rico: Lost and Forgotten Zoraida (48) and Cristian (15) Sotomayor, checking their smartphones in the only place they have two bars of cell service without having to cross the river into town. Currently, they have to drive or hike down a long trail from their home to reach the river bank instead of taking the usual road to town. Utuado, Puerto Rico. December 28, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1538941385953-PWJ7QDNU2BFB2FERLADO/Puerto+Rico_LinaColladoGarcia_Dec2017-19.jpg Puerto Rico: Lost and Forgotten Every morning at 5am, Cristian (15) crosses the river on the pulley system, hikes two miles to a loaned car and goes to school. After school he works with his dad and doesn’t return until 10 at night; to hike another two miles and traverse the channel to get home. The daily journey is “becoming an impediment,” he says, and unless something changes soon, he will have to put his education on hold to help his family cope. December 28, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1538941388589-CD499P3BTS65RDOVXWNR/Puerto+Rico_LinaColladoGarcia_Dec2017-20.jpg Puerto Rico: Lost and Forgotten Sunset view of El Morro Fortress from the devastated, low-income community of La Perla in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. 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As youth are increasingly persuaded that Western knowledge and medicine are superior to traditional, Alberto fears for the soul of Matsigenka culture. He worries their ancestral knowledge of the jungle will be lost in the future generation. The Matsigenka have knowledge of over three hundred species of medicinal plants that are effective for treating a wide variety of health problems and a spiritual connection with nature westerners are still trying to understand. April 14, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1539052462234-7OIQI61SOPMXV06MHD09/ManuProject_websiteselects_LinaCollado-5.jpg The Manu Project Walter, a native of the community of Shintuya, carefully explains the historical creation and use of their many exquisite arrows. The traditional, handmade chair he sits on was made from a recently felled tree. Due to its location within the outskirts of the park, Shintuya is governed by conservation regulations that are seemingly contradictory as the people are only permitted to hunt with traditional bow and arrow, but they are legally able and encouraged to log their land. April 19, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1539052449560-A7OKKK61DPE0UL3YMTNG/ManuProject_websiteselects_LinaCollado-1.jpg The Manu Project In the native community of Huacaria, the Peruvian Ministry of Culture and Education hires non-native educators to teach the young in Spanish while also providing Spanish books, not in Matsigenka, their native tongue. This is creating a huge language and cultural barrier between the young and old generations of a community, not only in Huacaria, but in other Matsigenka communities as well. The responsibility of teaching the Matsigenka language has fallen upon the parents and cultural leaders of the community, who have little to no education or the adequate resources to teach their own language. April 20, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1539052457910-YN8CAI5ZE3WKNWLVS7BN/ManuProject_websiteselects_LinaCollado-3.jpg The Manu Project A Curandero prepares a bath to cleanse daño, negative energy in the soul, by bathing in a blend of purifying lambranzillo leaves prepared by their healing Curandero, Alberto. Despite cultural and health necessity, only a few native communities perform this traditional bath as part of their daily lives. Most native communities feel coerced into exploiting their ceremonies and culture for tourism as the only way to survive in today’s modern society. April 14, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1539052458149-3D5H6NV1I6NLOPDTJGSE/ManuProject_websiteselects_LinaCollado-4.jpg The Manu Project Maria, 19, works on her crafts as she wears a traditional dress used in dances with the other women of the native community. Rita is the first-ever, female advisor to the chief of the community, and together they created the first life plan for the community. This plan had as a goal making their educational system bilingual by 2025, thus ensuring their cultural survival and also creating a system where each female family member could make necklaces and textiles for sale to tourists at any time. April 14, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1539052467690-G3XDTWUCLZ1I3MRZBW6S/ManuProject_websiteselects_LinaCollado-7.jpg The Manu Project At the time the primary students of Shipietari paraded into their new school as part of their anniversary celebration, the children wore their modern school uniform for the first time. A piece of cloth which felt as foreign as their new cement school on their bare feet. Given a local lice outbreak, many students received a buzz cut prior to wearing their uniforms and going to school. April 21, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1539052468257-2Q1YKXIGRCZDIPPT9JTY/ManuProject_websiteselects_LinaCollado-8.jpg The Manu Project Due to living inside Manu National Park, the Matsigenka must pay a certain taxes every year and travel the Madre de Dios region to find work. As these men, many of the Matsigenka, lack river transportation and have to wait for hours until they find a ride home. This forces many of the men to be away from home for long periods of time while earning very little together with a long commute. Today, many of the men and women who leave for work never return, decide to stay in the cities and remarry. April 22, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1539052474141-F6A43280YY286W4FWMH2/ManuProject_websiteselects_LinaCollado-10.jpg The Manu Project In the native community of Santa Rosa de Huacaria, the curriculum is taught entirely in Spanish, instead of their native tongue, Matsigenka. Every school year, teachers meet with the parents of the community, to inform them the curriculum will be taught in Spanish, therefore, leaving them and their cultural leaders fully responsible in teaching their children the dialects and traditions of their own native language. Many of whom did not receive an education and do not speak Spanish. April 14, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1539052480123-F4IRMDRNUXKHTML06Z7T/ManuProject_websiteselects_LinaCollado-11.jpg The Manu Project In the Mastigenka community of Tayakome, a group of kids spend a weekend afternoon huddled over a disconnected smartphone watching a movie dubbed in Spanish. Even though technology is seen in the restricted native community, they lack a high school and cultural traditions. A large amount of their youth are leaving the community to pursue a higher education but are immediately labeled as deserters by their families and not allowed to return. April 22, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1539052482253-TATBT0TXQNAS6F5SMT2X/ManuProject_websiteselects_LinaCollado-12.jpg The Manu Project Captain Dante expertly navigates the challenging Río Fierro in the Restricted Zone of Manu Park in an overloaded boat, full of researchers and their luggage. Dante travels this grueling route twice a month and can take weeks to traverse during the dry season or as little as eight hours during rainy season. Once having lived solely off the land, today, tourism has become the major economic strategy for Dante and other native communities. Due to its inaccessibility, Manu National Park only receives around two thousand tourists a year. Increasing tourism is one of the main reasons the Peruvian Government is on the planning stages to create a highway on the park’s borders, which would directly threaten the Matsigenka’s existence. April 17, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1539052486869-7IU8MEY8M13CWRUPAHSU/ManuProject_websiteselects_LinaCollado-13.jpg The Manu Project A young girl from Caocatl inquisitively stands on the shore of Río Fierro with a modern doll. The girl shows signs of parasitic pestilence that often accompanies nomadic communities as they are forced to become sedentary and water supplies are easily contaminated. Efforts to provide clean water and health posts have been extremely successful in lowering parasitic related deaths, but due to the immensity of Manu, some Matsigenka communities, like this one, have been overlooked. April 21, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1539052487605-SVLPKQI94GIY0ZXWSN6J/ManuProject_websiteselects_LinaCollado-14.jpg The Manu Project A Matsigenka mother holds her child as she prepares a fresh spider monkey kill in Caocatl. Tradition and park regulations require all hunting to be done with handmade bow and arrow. Despite its cultural significance and nutritional importance, monkey hunting is opposed by park conservationists, causing the natives to defend this fundamental tradition as a culture who has existed for thousands of years as protectors of that land. April 24, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1539052493648-FGADRW7OT0QVQDCIGEE6/ManuProject_websiteselects_LinaCollado-15.jpg The Manu Project Forgotten amongst the trees hides a village called Caocatl. A Matsigenka community, deep inside the Restricted Area of Manu National Park, who survive primarily on ancestral knowledge, customs of cultivation and hunting. However, they do not have any schools, potable water or a health post like the other native communities. The stark contrast between their farmed land, chakras, and the virgin forests bares witness to the controversial debate between park conservationists and natives. April 22, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1539052497234-X46YZ00LN081RK9AGLWQ/ManuProject_websiteselects_LinaCollado-16.jpg The Manu Project Gabriel, a Matsigenka man in his early 20’s from the native community of Yomibato, posed with his 7-foot bow and arrows, his Adidas t-shirt, and his tinted hair while standing in front of a tree that has been alive for centuries. Despite a history of conflicts, Manu National Park and its inhabitants have a common interest: to conserve the park and protect it from illegal interference of outsiders, like loggers or miners. April 24, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1539052502678-F83UM4E6VV764CJS86CX/ManuProject_websiteselects_LinaCollado-17.jpg The Manu Project Julio and Cesar, Matsigenka natives from Yomibato, prepare Barbasco Root; a toxic anesthetic used for fishing by temporarily paralyzing fish that come into contact with it. The root is pounded to release a milky substance into the water, creating a cloud that produces floating fish as it goes downstream. Although this method is considered to have only minor and transient environmental side effects, as the Matsigenka population grows, park conservationists wonder if it is sustainable. April 24, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1539052506809-3GMD9OULHLFX4PRTF2BO/ManuProject_websiteselects_LinaCollado-18.jpg The Manu Project Isabel, a Matsigenka woman, holds a bounty of fish cupped in her shirt that she and her family gathered while fishing. A Yomibato native, Isabel holds true to many cultural traditions, such as her family's fishing method and her role in her family. She has also embraced change as indicative in her attire and wrist watch. The average Matsigenka woman marries around age 14, wears her traditional handspun cushma and has an average of eight to ten pregnancies. April 24, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1539052513697-A0NP5WSUBJPBKSSRPK12/ManuProject_websiteselects_LinaCollado-19.jpg The Manu Project Isabel, wearing western clothes, enjoyed a quiet moment to herself, while searching for fish. It is hard to describe a "typical day" in the life of a Matsigenka family, because they differ depending upon the season of the year, the weather and the necessities of each family. Unlike people living in other places of the world, the Matsigenka are not used to working for anyone but their own families, a freedom they still have but is rapidly disappearing. April 24, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1539052515759-5S3SD5BKLAU3ADZFYL7E/ManuProject_websiteselects_LinaCollado-20.jpg The Manu Project Marcos, an eight year old from Tayakome Native Community, attending elementary school, dreams of becoming a doctor and earn a degree in medicine, which means that he must leave the jungle, hence his family given that in Tayakome, there is only an elementary level school. However, Marcos’s parents at this young age, warn him that if he pursues his career goals and leaves the jungle, he will pay the consequences by being labeled as a deserter never gaining back his family’s respect. By providing a bilingual education and career opportunities to the young, the community will be able to keep their youth from permanently leaving their home. 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/712acfd4-5e60-4997-88c7-c4654915e468/PXL_20231208_020944379_Original.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1705035105146-N5KO0MU6OGLF218G52GM/LCG_Portraits_DisappearingHome-2.jpg A Disappearing Home - John Leonard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1705035109639-VERUFDUMZ7UHHSQKSQ77/LCG_Portraits_DisappearingHome-3297.jpg A Disappearing Home - Mara, Doug, Sierra & Olivia Hagen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1705035111524-GTWUGJM5YC55OJVCIS76/LCG_Portraits_DisappearingHome-3934.jpg A Disappearing Home - Louie Shahan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1705035131678-OAL0UAIEOX02JZ0HZIWC/LCG_Portraits_DisappearingHome-8076.jpg A Disappearing Home - Fio Lazarte 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1705035123294-7A60LDHN6FYWQAG352MG/LCG_Portraits_DisappearingHome-7079.jpg A Disappearing Home - Jordan Rich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1705035126945-X2ZCVUPGJ6YVOL4EI0XO/LCG_Portraits_DisappearingHome-7669.jpg A Disappearing Home - Edith, Chema and Family https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1705035126826-IS3UGHKZ2K5F3SJC1AQC/LCG_Portraits_DisappearingHome-7580.jpg A Disappearing Home - Isabel Vazquez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/fec1b277-95cb-4fb1-86ae-f9b0f29042d3/LinaColladoGarcia_ADisappearingHome-1.jpg A Disappearing Home November 2022. Romero Family spends a Saturday enjoying their free time. Marely, 8, colors while her older brother, Diego, 16 reads his book for school. Maria, 34, cleans and tries to organize her deteriorating home. Their landlord has not restored their trailer and continues to increase their rent year after year. Wyoming is one of the states with the least amount of protections for tenants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1704509793544-U3HGK1B6N4053BRDQO6Z/DSC_2841.JPG A Disappearing Home June 2023. Mara, 39, nurse and Doug, 39, physical therapist, rent a three-bedroom home in town with their two daughters, Olivia, 2, and Sierra, 4. Mara gets ready for work, while prepping her daughters for the day. Mara works as a nurse in an OR as well as at the local urgent care clinic. She also works part time at the clinic in Teton Village. About 25% of the nurses who work with Mara live in Teton County. From those who live here, most are in unstable housing where they continue to bounce from one situation to another. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1704514142124-YOJT3R0ZTSJ5TG6TMHH5/DSC_2935A.JPG A Disappearing Home September 2021. Kate, 33, works at the Teton County Public Health Department and has been living in Jackson, Wyoming for many years, but like many other homes, her house was put on the market. Kate and her three roommates had to move out with very little affordable housing options and thus became one of the many locals who said goodbye to Teton County. At the time Kate left in 2021, there were 182 job postings in the local newspaper with five apartments or rooms listed for rent, all with rent over $2k. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1704508844029-7SKQFIIYYA5R3A9INFTP/A.+LCG_DisappearingHome_JimenezFamily-5260.jpg A Disappearing Home March 2023. Isabel, 44, Samantha, 11, Angel, 10, and Ana, 8, play "Lobo" with the elders of the family. Isabel and Samantha live in their 3-bedroom trailer home with seven other family members. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1704514160964-IKZ9X63BNG2VTXRS6VH6/DSC_4566.JPG A Disappearing Home January 2022. John, 41, works as a freelance contractor and lives in a studio apartment on top of the garage of a wealthy resident's ranch. After moving three times in two years, this was his only option in order to be able to stay near his community of over 20 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1704509614435-LY402Q1XCY8X19871J0A/DSC_9378.JPG A Disappearing Home August 2023. Raymundo, 49, works as a painter for a locally-owned business. He is part of a 33-person construction team building this vacation, second home. Raymundo lives in a two bedroom apartment in one of the county’s five largest apartment complexes. Rents across all complexes increased 60% in one year, tightening the strain on local families and costing over 55% of Gaby and Raymundo's monthly income in rent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1704509570616-WCCVNM7TE6OQH9LIYLF6/DSC_1002.JPG A Disappearing Home April 2023. Samantha, 11, Vanessa, 14, and Angel, 10, enjoy a few quiet moments in Samantha's trailer home before heading to church for their first communion. Because they live in Jackson, other family members often come and go. Samantha's home has a surplus of beds, sofa beds and bunk beds to make room for everyone, and have space in case a family member needs to avoid long, dangerous commutes into town from the outskirts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/0fd24685-0142-4832-bf0c-a36d0e4adb9f/LinaColladoGarcia_ADisappearingHome-6.jpg A Disappearing Home February 2021. At a summer camp in 2021, Gael was asked to draw his home, pictured here. The Robles family consists of Gael, 7, Mia, 16, Mateo, 10 and Riana, 40 and have been living in Jackson for 16 years. They live in a studio apartment with two beds and costs 50% of Riana's income in rent. Riana works as a housekeeper for a hotel in town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/66bc4a14-7cc9-49ae-b21d-73129eb2de64/LinaColladoGarcia_ADisappearingHome-3.jpg A Disappearing Home July 2023. Edith, 43, and Chema, 44, moved to Jackson in 2001. They have four children, three sons and one daughter. Edith cooks alongside her entire family at the Teton County Fair. They've been working 12 hour days for nearly one week to cook as extra income to offset Jackson's high living costs. Currently, Edith and her husband live in a small, 3-bedroom apartment with their two youngest children, and continuously search for cheaper housing and space. The family has moved four times in four years. Each time has been due to small living circumstances for the family, high rent or to live closer to family, in town. During the four years of moving and finding a place, for an entire summer, they lived on a relative’s couch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/343b0e36-61c5-4c27-a32f-f3bdcdc3e2ca/LinaColladoGarcia_ADisappearingHome-4.jpg A Disappearing Home February 2021. Edith, 43, and Chema, 44, moved to Jackson in 2001 and currently work in a local fast-food restaurant and live in Alpine, Wyoming, 45 minutes away. Every morning, they begin their commute at 3am to drop off their children with relatives to wait for the school bus and get to work. They have already totaled one car while commuting through dangerous conditions during winter, due to wildlife crossings at night. Alpine, Wyoming has been the closest, most affordable rent they have been able to find. Edith and Chema continue to search every day for an affordable rental closer to work and famiily. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/4ae10d90-0256-4b95-922d-181495fb3b42/LinaColladoGarcia_ADisappearingHome-5.jpg A Disappearing Home March 2022. Isabel, 44, has two jobs, working in a fast food restaurant and baking cakes. Her husband works as an Uber driver in town. Isabel bakes five cakes in one day with the help of her daughter, Samantha, 11 and her two nephews. Each order is a family effort. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/ecf407ea-8adb-45c5-b396-3c538e638304/LinaColladoGarcia_ADisappearingHome-6.jpg A Disappearing Home September 2021. Kate, 33, worked at Teton County Public Health for about a year until her rental was sold and she had to leave. For three months she could not find a rental for an affordable rate with a decent space so she had no choice but return to her home state in Washington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/5286cf22-fbee-4922-ad76-2f29709264bd/LinaColladoGarcia_ADisappearingHome-7.jpg A Disappearing Home June 2023. Doug, 39, physical therapist, searches for dinner to leave defrosting while he and his wife go to work. One day a week, Doug prepares the girls for the day on his own, while Mara takes early shifts at work. Doug work 35-40 hours a week and has two jobs, one full-time and one part-time. As Doug shared, “Trying to stay afloat financially and save while trying to balance work and family is hard. Especially with the reality that we need to make more money, and the only way to make more money is to work more. Wages are not going up with the rate of our local inflation in Jackson. That is pretty hard.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/64bb9a69-b5fe-462c-af65-71eac2fe4ce1/LinaColladoGarcia_ADisappearingHome-8.jpg A Disappearing Home April 2023. Isabel, 44, and her daughter Samantha, 11, get ready for her first communion in their trailer home. Because they live in Jackson, other family members often come and go. Isabel’s home has a surplus of beds, sofa beds and bunk beds to make room for everyone, and have space in case a family member needs to avoid long, dangerous commutes into town from the outskirts. "I'm never alone in this house. Family is always around, trying to make it work. I can't say 'no' to anyone needing help or a place to sleep," said Isabel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1d1bcb6d-e7ef-43f4-9d0f-a3edad040ebc/LinaColladoGarcia_ADisappearingHome-11.jpg A Disappearing Home February 2023. Anna, 31, moved to Jackson in 2015 to work as an educator. For the last 4.5 years, she worked at the JH Children’s Museum. Anna moved 11 times in eight years, most due to rent increases or houses sold. In March, she joined the countless who have left the valley. As Anna shared, “the ability to choose is what is being taken away. I am being forced to leave, not choosing to leave.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/e30af6e2-f45c-4ecd-8499-159e370fbfc7/LinaColladoGarcia_ADisappearingHome-12.jpg A Disappearing Home December 2023. Maria, 34, and Marely, 8, wait for the school bus three days before Holiday Winter Break began. Maria and her children live in front of the bus stop, a 3-bedroom trailer home in the most industrious side of town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/aef52c9b-547f-4749-b4ee-cce35ba21590/LinaColladoGarcia_ADisappearingHome-15.jpg A Disappearing Home November 2022. Romero Family have lived in Jackson for over 25 years, and struggle with rising rental rates every year with no other housing options. In three years, their carpet has flooded two times and there is no repair in sight. Maria, 34, places as many of their valuables on the wall or on the kitchen counter for protection from flooding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/1b4ecf13-2d54-4ba5-ad62-f4993842298b/LinaColladoGarcia_ADisappearingHome-16.jpg A Disappearing Home March 2022. Edith, 43, and her daughter, 14, commute every day for at least 40 minutes through a dangerous pass to leave Vanessa with a relative and get to work at 4am. Today, they are enjoying a quiet breakfast on their only day off from work and school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/9dee0496-c40f-4cc2-887f-571cd79c8161/LinaColladoGarcia_ADisappearingHome-17.jpg A Disappearing Home July 2023. Every year, Maria's, 34, rent has increased, to where she now pays over 70% of her income in rent. Diego, 16 and Marely, 8, go with her every weekend to avoid being home alone and paying for child care. On the lower-end, childcare costs approximately $1,500 a month per child, and options with availability are slim with long waiting lists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/d300da90-8643-4fa8-a272-a59f1a5b91a4/LinaColladoGarcia_ADisappearingHome-18.jpg A Disappearing Home July 2024. Gaby 40, came to Jackson in 2016, before her husband, Raymund. In 2011, they had Shania, 11. Gaby and Shania play with 3D puzzles during their structured Sunday family time. They live in a two bedroom apartment in one of the county’s five largest apartment complexes. Rents across all complexes increased 60% in one year, tightening the strain on local families and costing over 55% of Gaby and Raymundo's monthly income in rent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/9b96330a-d90d-4efd-bc8f-0491443ada78/LinaColladoGarcia_ADisappearingHome-19.jpg A Disappearing Home August 2023. Raymundo, 49, works as a painter for a locally-owned business. He is part of a 33-person construction team building this vacation, second home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/4a4579c1-ba2b-4213-bb6d-770b173dc41d/LinaColladoGarcia_ADisappearingHome-20.jpg A Disappearing Home August 2023. Gaby, 40, has worked as an assistant busser and food preparer for 14 years at a restaurant popular with tourists and locals. Gaby, her husband and daughter, have moved within the county six times all due to rent increases. "If we lose our house, we won't be able to stay in Jackson," he said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/8350a699-ad86-407d-b94d-ba18296d2707/LinaColladoGarcia_ADisappearingHome-22.jpg A Disappearing Home August 2024. Gaby and her daughter Shania enjoy their day off together paddle-boarding at a park near their home. “Being so close to nature is one of the main reasons we still make Jackson work, and choose to continue living here. The other reason is being so close to family,” said Gaby, who lives in the same county as her siblings. Because nearly all the land in Teton County is federally-owned and protected, the biggest problem for Jackson's 22,000 residents is space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bb8213fb2cf79a8180946e8/5be078cd-a98c-4d92-93c3-afe0d037772b/LinaColladoGarcia_ADisappearingHome-23.jpg A Disappearing Home August 2024. Shania, 11, enjoys their day off at Rendevous Park, paddle-boarding. Shania attends middle school as a sixth grader, and says most of her friends live in very challenging housing circumstances. Currently, about 50% of school district employees live outside of Teton County, Wyoming. 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