Success Stories


  • Navajo Tribe

    The Native Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act (NAHASDA) of 1996 significantly changed HUD funding for tribes into a block grant program that allows them to structure their own approaches to developing housing for their members. Then as now, HUD funds are inadequate, but now HUD is also pushing Tribes to leverage their NAHASDA funds.

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  • New Mexico student debt pilot program

    College students are going into debt to finance their educations. This negatively affects their, credit, ability to afford rising rents and obtain home loan but RCAC’s pilot debt counseling program helps students understand the consequences of debt.

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  • Rural Alaska Community Action Program – 502 packaging

    RCAC staff provide training and support to nonprofit housing organizations that want to package USDA 502 loans. RCAC staff also review the completed packages to make sure they are complete before sending them to USDA for approval.

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  • River Village Mobile Home Park

    RCAC worked with the mobile home park owner to develop a budget and plan for necessary requirements to apply for public funding to, ultimately, achieve compliance with state drinking water regulations and provide safe water for its residents.

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  • Department of Hawaiian Homelands

    RCAC assisted DHHL to prepare required reports and DHHL submitted four successful grant applications for three projects totaling $15,826,191.

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