If before the hurricane, numerous housing units had been abandoned due to the owner’s inability to pay or sell, Maria destroyed thousands of poorly made houses, particularly in urban areas, which further “cleared the land,” accelerating land and property dispossession (Levin et al. 2018). Importantly, the removal of people from their homes not only impoverishes; it also “nomadizes.” Although most US industries have not overtly organized to recruit Puerto Rican labor, nomadization has resulted in some migrants being actively sought out to work in undesirable low-wage employment in the United States, including turkey processing plants, at a time when the state has stepped up its anti-immigrant discourse and undocumented workers are declining (Harlan 2018). This recalls Federici and Vishmidt’s (2013) observation that, “The attack on the house is not only a product of financial speculation…it is an attempt to create a workforce that is more mobile.”