Centro Para La Reconstruccion Del Habitat Inc.

Centro Para La Reconstruccion Del Habitat Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Caguas, Puerto Rico, operates as a prime recipient of federal grants focused on brownfields assessment, habitat remediation, community planning, and disaster resilience in Puerto Rico. The organization has no federal contracts; its footprint consists entirely of grant awards from six distinct federal agencies, split evenly between prime grants (55% of awards) and sub-award participation (45%).

Centro's customer base centers on environmental and community development agencies. EPA Region 2 leads with two prime awards totaling brownfields assessment and community engagement work. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development has issued two prime cooperative agreements for community planning and capacity building addressing blight mitigation and code enforcement in low-income Puerto Rican communities. The Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service and Rural Housing Service Community Facilities programs, the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and other federal grant programs round out the active customer set.

The organization's prime grant work demonstrates concrete capability in environmental site assessment and brownfields remediation. A $500,000 cooperative agreement from EPA Region 2 under the Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 66.818) running through September 30, 2029 tasks Centro with inventorying, characterizing, and assessing brownfield sites in Vega Baja, including nine Phase I and four Phase II environmental site assessments, three site-specific cleanup plans, nine community meetings, and quarterly progress reporting. Two prior cooperative agreements from HUD's Office of Community Planning and Development (one from September 2023 through August 2029, another from August 2023 through September 2029) focused on blight identification, nuisance remediation strategies, and municipal partnership building across low-income communities in Caguitas, Aguas Buenas, Rio Piedras, San Juan, San Isidro, and Canovanas.

As a sub-recipient, Centro participates in infrastructure and habitat initiatives led by the Regents of the University of Colorado on NSF's Strengthening American Infrastructure program (October 2025) and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation on climate resilience and habitat restoration in coastal Puerto Rico (August 2024). Centro also manages housing development projects including permitting coordination and staff professional development as a sub-recipient under a $48,216 award (July 2025) and supports the Desarrollos CRH housing rehabilitation initiative with a $35,000 sub-award (August 2023).

Recent activity has held steady at three awards annually in 2023–2025 after slower initial years. Only one award completes within the next twenty-four months, limiting recompete exposure in that window. Centro does not issue subawards under its grants and operates entirely without federal contract prime or subcontract work.