b"RCAC's Development Solution's (DS) primary focus is to save and build the rural housing networks capacity and to ensure that it is producing rental housing in underserved areas throughout the rural West. Since RCAC launched the DS program in 2013, it has helped seven nonprofit organiza-tions produce 280+ affordable housing units in the rural West.RCAC goes beyond its traditional lender and technical assistance provider roles to use its organizational resources and expertise to ensure that afford-able housing either continues to be available, or it is augmented in rural areas where it is in short supply. RCAC partners with organizations when a greater role is warranted and shares risk with the local organization.Current project locations include Aptos and Santa Rosa, California; Kunia, Hawaii; Great Falls and Kalispell, Montana; and Gallup and Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico.Since RCAC launched the DS program in 2013, it has helped seven nonprofit organizations produce 280+ affordable housing unitsRCAC also places special emphasis on identifying nonprofit organizations to develop housing on Tribal lands and within colonias (unincorporated settle-ments along the Mexican border in the U.S. that typically lack sanitation and adequate housing)."