b'HousingHousing stepped up in new ways to respond to the pan-demic. As COVID-19 forced businesses to close or reduce services, unemployment rates soared, and renters across the country encountered financial hardship. A $125,000 Bank of America grant powered RCACs Rural Rental Insecurity Program (RRIP), a grant program to finance emergency rental assistance programs.RCAC distributed the funds in six, $16,000 grants for emergency rental assistance. Three awards were made in Washington with others in Alaska, Montana and Nevada. Four went to Community Action Programs, one to a local government, and one to a Native housing authority.RCAC also expanded its longstanding relationship with the Wells Fargo Foundation, which granted $400,000 to support RCACs housing counseling training services. RCAC offered four workshops to 343 housing counselors in COVID-19 foreclosure and eviction related training for 2,506 contact hours. Housing Highlights23 self-help grantees accessed $22,226,113 in grant renewals. 3,308 participants in housing trainings accessed14,215 training hours, including training for COVID- related foreclosure and eviction participants.48 self-help agencies produced 478 new construction self-help homes; and rehabilitated 65 self-help homes.13 housing projects secured $49.9 million in financingand produced 257 single-family units and 156 multi- family units.20 agencies submitted 245 Section 502 packages that totaled $71 million for low-income homebuyers.107 families achieved homeownership through $27 million in financing.12 | RCAC Annual Report'