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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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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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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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Self-Help Builder December 2018
Happy holidays! Thank you for helping us this year to create vibrant, healthy and enduring rural communities. To reflect, here are a few highights from past issues of the "Self-Help Builder "that exhibit the dedication and perseverance of the people we serve.
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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.
Recent News
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Thursday, Jan 17, 2019Posted in: California, Elizabeth Zach, Featured News, Water
New California governor dedicates attention—and funding—to clean water
California’s rural communities, which often rely on wells and increasingly must contend with contaminated water, are now at the forefront of the incoming governor’s budget.
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Network News January 2019
Lewistown, Montana – In the 30 some years that Tammy Eckhardt worked as a police officer and criminal investigator, it was essential to find solace from the disheartening aspects of her job. She did this by sitting quietly and quilting. And, through the long Montana winters, she was in good company.
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Tuesday, Jan 15, 2019Posted in: Affordable Housing, California, Economic issues, Elizabeth Zach, Employment, Featured News
California’s Central Valley outpaces coastal areas on some economic measures
Job growth and population gains in California’s mostly rural Central Valley surpassed the same measures in the state’s more populous Bay Area and Southern region, which some analysts say could be encouraging trends for the coming year.
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Latest from RCAC
Federal Reserve says student debt has hampered housing market https://t.co/VUoh0NGkR7
How the shutdown is jeopardizing housing for rural Americans https://t.co/70th3c26ge via @nbcnews
As the powerful storm moves east, the National Weather Service continues to issue warnings and advisories throughout much of California for flooding, high winds, high surf and possibly even coastal flooding impacting downtown Los Angeles. Most of the warnings expire tomorrow.