Juan Rosario Hernández, administrator of the Puerto Rico Public Housing Administration, says 18,832 families are waiting for a lease to an apartment in public housing. ^[1] The list has been shrinking as the agency reclaims units. When Rosario last gave the figure in September, it stood at 20,142 families - down from a Housing Department applicant registry that once exceeded 34,000. ^{[2] [3]} A large share of the reclaimed stock comes from law enforcement: the agency collaborates daily with the FBI, HSI and the Puerto Rico Police to recover apartments that had been used for criminal activity, and counts 410 units recovered to date. ^{[4] [5]} Even with those recoveries, the wait remains long. As of September, Rosario said 1,825 units were still awaiting rehabilitation after years in which the agency held some 4,000 vacant units, and 840 people holding Section 8 vouchers are also waiting for housing. ^{[6] [7] [8]}