Housing

RCAC works with mutual self-help housing agencies, community housing development organizations, and other nonprofit organizations to develop affordable housing. In 2007, RCAC assisted 191 nonprofit housing agencies develop more than 1,600 units of affordable housing.

RCAC provides technical assistance and training to developers and agricultural worker housing sponsors in the following areas:

Single family housing production programs, such as U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Section 523 mutal self-help rural housing program.
Multi-family housing production programs, such as USDA Section 514-516 farm labor housing, USDA Section 515 rural rental housing, HOME rental housing; Federal Home Loan Bank's affordable housing program.
Housing rehabilitation programs, including USDA Section 504 repair program, USDA Section 533 housing preservation, community development block grant housing rehabilitation and HOME rental rehabilitation.
Community facilities financing and compliance; and housing counseling and development of demonstration programs, such as single-room occupancy housing, mobile-home park conversions, resident ownership of at-risk property, mutual housing, limited equity cooperatives and land trusts.
Advocacy and outreach for farm worker housing at local, state and national levels.
Manufactured home community assistance

RCAC offers technical assistance and training for manufactured home communities converting to resident-owned cooperatives. RCAC is a Certified Technical Assistance Provider in the ROC USA™ Network, whose mission is to make quality, resident-ownership of manufactured home communities viable nationwide.

RCAC also is a member of the I'M HOME (Innovations in Manufactured Homes) network. I'M HOME is a multi-year initiative that seeks to ensure that families who choose to purchase manufactured homes can reap benefits from homeownership comparable to owners of other homes.

For more information, please contact Eileen Piekarz
at 775/323-8882.