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No matter who you are or where you live, you should be able to drink a glass of water in your home or neighborhood and not worry that it will make you sick. But this isn’t reality for more than a million Californians, including Eastern Coachella Valley residents, whose water isn’t safe to drink.
With your help RCAC will provide plumbing infrastructure (everything from pipes to permits) to install two water bottle filling stations (taps) at the San Jose Community Learning Center in Eastern Coachella Valley.
Watch our video, donate or share RCAC's Agua4All crowdfunding campaign here >>
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RCAC wins $2 million to tackle the affordable housing crisis in rural communities in the western U.S.
Prestigious national awards program financing to help boost development of rural multi-family housing
RCAC has won $2 million from the Wells Fargo NEXT Awards for Opportunity Finance. The multi-million dollar award will allow RCAC to expand its Development Solutions initiative to boost development of affordable multi-family housing in rural and Native communities in 13 western states. Read press release here >>
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Going it alone, working together: Anita LaRan and a lifetime of service
By Elizabeth Zach, RCAC staff writer
Anita LaRan returned to her childhood home in New Mexico’s Mora Valley in 1984, recently divorced, out-of-work and with three adolescent children in tow. By all accounts, it should have been a low point in her life, a sure sign of failure and desperation.
But if you think that, you don’t know Anita ... Read more >>
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RCAC lowers interest rates by 0.5%
In an ongoing effort to serve communities and nonprofit affordable housing developers, effective immediately, RCAC’s Loan Fund has reduced short-term interest rates by 0.5 percent. New rates are 5 percent for a two-year loan, 5.25 percent for a three-year loan. In addition, for all new loans committed before Jan. 31, 2015, we will further reduce the rate by another 0.25 percent for the first 18 months of the loan.
For contact information go here >>
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New subdivision planned for the Inupiat tribe in Alaska
By Sarah Buck, project coordinator
Growth is inevitable, even in Arctic villages. And, like most Artic communities, the Anaktuvuk Pass community in Alaska, population 300, has needed additional housing for many years. Though the lack of housing is not prompting people to leave, it is making it increasingly difficult for those who have left to move back to their home village. In most cases, three generations or more are living under one roof. Read more >>
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Pima County wins two public works Project of the Year awards
By Sarah Buck, RCAC project coordinator
The Tres Rios Water Reclamation Facility won in the environment category, for projects more than $75 million and the Robles Ranch improvements project won in the structures category for small cities/rural communities. Read more >>
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Drought Resources
In addition to RCAC's trainings, drought resources for small, rural water systems are posted on RCAC's website and available for download. Access resources here >>
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