Puerto Rico Office for Socioeconomic and Community Development

Law 1-2001, passed on March 1, 2001 created the Oficina del Coordinador General para el Financiamiento Social y la Autogestión (OFSA), with a mission to eradicate poverty in Puerto Rico.

[3] The Oficina del Comisionado de Asuntos Municipales (OCAM) was a similar agency which had helped municipalities with funding for specific community needs but had been eliminated in 2017.

[9] In 2016, with a small budget of US$3.761 million, the mission remained the same; to create sustainable development, and empower people to work together on improving infrastructure, housing and the social fabric of their communities.

Jesús Vélez Vargas, its director stated that the program was evolving with more streamlined ways to bring help to these marginalized communities.

[12][13] In October 2017, a month after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico's infrastructure, $41.2 million in federal funds was earmarked for The Puerto Rico Office for Socioeconomic and Community Development (ODSEC) with a mandate that the funds be distributed, for infrastructure work, to municipalities with over 50,000 inhabitants.