The non-profit organization center for habitat reconstruction will provide three pilot low-income communities in puerto rico with education, training, meetings, and community planning geared towards…

The non-profit organization center for habitat reconstruction will provide three pilot low-income communities in puerto rico with education, training, meetings, and community planning geared towards the identification, prevention, and elimination of blighted properties and their environmental and health risks. Activities:project activities include creation of a comprehensive plan; development of nuisance remediation strategies appropriate for the most common nuisance situations; and collaborative work with municipalities to address code enforcement gaps, foster municipal-community partnerships, strengthen local legal frameworks, leverage private and public resources for continued work, and provide a replicable model for other puerto rican communities. Subrecipient:no subawards are included in this assistance agreement.outcomes:expected outcomes are an increase number of community stakeholders committed to the fight against blight; a decrease in number of environmental and health risks in the community; increased number of new nuisance abatement and code enforcement ordinances enacted by local government; and an increased number of reuse and placemaking projects that converted nuisances for disaster resiliency within a three-year period. Direct beneficiaries of this project are residents of the three target communities of caguuml; itas, aguas buenas, riacute; o piedras, SAN juan, and SAN isidro, canoacute; vanas that are made up of a mix of low-income rural, urban, and informal neighborhoods. The recipient does not intend to issue any subawards.