 The WLCAC's headquarters is located at 109th and Central Avenue in Watts, California.The War on poverty, proposed by Lyndon B. Johnson to address the national poverty rate of about nineteen percent, led to the creation of the Economic Opportunity Act, which then established the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) to administer the local application of federal funds targeted against poverty.OEO was created to fix the high unemployment rates rising in poverty areas.