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Press Releases
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RCAC awarded $110,820 contract to assist with New Cuyama water and wastewater management
West Sacramento, Calif. — The Cuyama Community Services District awarded Rural Community Assistance Corporation more than $110,000 to help the district with efficient long-range management and operations for its water and wastewater treatment services. -
RCAC receives more than $800,000 to provide housing counseling to rural residents
West Sacramento, Calif. — Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC) received an $832,841 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to help rural residents find housing, make informed housing choices or keep their current homes.
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Articles
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Isabel Solorio, 2018 RCAC Yoneo Ono Outstanding Rural Volunteer Award recipient
In the nearly four decades since Isabel Solorio left her native Mexico in search of, as she calls it still, ‘the American Dream,’ she has held tight to the idea that she wanted to give as much back to her adopted country as it gave her. -
Rural areas lack affordable housing, and often struggle for funding
A new report highlights the challenges rural communities face in attracting affordable housing, although many of them across the country have high poverty rates, low vacancy rates and high unemployment rates as do urban centers.
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Publications
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Network News November 2018
In January, D. Nathan Cieszynski was teaching a course that he knew well and had offered so many times that there should have been few surprises. During his January workshop, however, a young man in the course gave him pause.
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Network News October 2018
Zuni Indian Reservation, N.M. – Some three decades ago Darrell Tsabetsaye opened a convenience store called Major Market on the Zuni Indian Reservation on the Arizona-northern New Mexico border. Though such stores are fixtures on many street corners, Tsabetsaye's was neither common nor convenient to establish.
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Self-Help Builder September 2018
Dear Sher, My organization wants to use the 10 percent de minimis indirect rate in our next 523 TA grant proposal. Can we do that?
Recent News
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Tuesday, Dec 11, 2018Posted in: Featured News, Housing, Housing Counseling
Student loan debt inhibits millennial homeownership
Nearly 90 percent of millennials say they want to purchase a home in the future, but half haven’t saved for a down payment.
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Monday, Dec 10, 2018Posted in: Network News
Network News December 2018
Happy holidays! Thank you for helping us create vibrant, healthy and enduring rural communities in 2018, a year to be remembered. To reflect, here are some of our success stories that exhibit the dedication and perseverance of the people we serve.
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Thursday, Dec 06, 2018Posted in: Affordable Housing, California, Elizabeth Zach, Featured News
California’s housing shortage worsened by wildfires
Before wildfires struck earlier this year in northern California, the state already was struggling to provide housing for a growing population. Now, following the Camp Fire in Butte County, as well as four others in the past 14 months, thousands of Californians who lost their homes can find nowhere to live.
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