Governor Jennifer González used her address to highlight actions on permitting and housing reform, saying the administration had cut backlog and accelerated approvals for critical projects.

She said her Executive Order No. 3 and related actions identified 737 priority projects, approved 394 through an expedited permitting channel and issued 13,813 single permits to date for 2025 requests. The governor said the Office of Permits (OSPE) and Department of Economic Development had cleared a large portion of previously stacked filings.

On housing, González announced the Department of Housing had increased relocation vouchers to $200,000 each to reflect market conditions and said the department had issued more than 600 property titles in five months and delivered 153 houses under the R3 program that had been stalled since Hurricane Maria. She framed an integrated approach of permits, title resolution and voucher increases as a way to both accelerate reconstruction and expand housing options for vulnerable families.

The governor linked the permitting improvements to a plan for a permanent, legislative reform of the permitting system and a proposed single-permit law to be presented later. She emphasized technology investments to reduce paper and centralize workflows.

Why it matters: Faster permitting and higher relocation vouchers can accelerate reconstruction, housing availability and economic activity. Title resolution addresses longstanding legal insecurity for families. The scale of the administrative fixes and voucher increases will have direct effects on displaced families and construction-sector actors.

The administration said additional legislative proposals will follow to make certain temporary mechanisms permanent; no roll-call votes on those bills were recorded during the address.