This $1,028,353 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Environmental Justice Government-to-Government (EJG2G) Program (CFDA 66.312) provides funding to the Municipality of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico to assist communities in identifying, preventing, and eliminating blighted properties and associated health and environmental risks. The project will enable communities to map assets, challenges, and opportunities, participate in planning activities to create a reuse plan, and implement pilot mitigation projects. Key activities include education and training on community mapping and blight identification, community planning workshops, and the execution of up to 5 deconstructions/demolitions, 16 clean-up/abatement interventions, and 6 rehabilitated affordable housing units and nature-based projects. The subrecipient, Center for Habitat Reconstruction, will support the municipality in facilitating outreach, trainings, mapping, planning, and pilot project implementation. The anticipated outcomes include increased community knowledge and engagement around blight reduction, as well as measurable improvements in environmental and public health in the communities served.