Rural organizations often struggle to budget their projects well and stitch together financing – limiting the scale of their development. HAC’s 2017 Assessment also revealed that for the 2013-2017 period, about a third of respondents developed, rehabilitated, or preserved fewer than 25 homes. To increase the scale of this development, rural housing providers require education and coaching to formulate accurate development budgets that thoroughly detail all sources and uses. Furthermore, they need capacity building to better understand, access, and combine the myriad funding sources necessary to make the budget work – including such federal sources as LIHTC, CDBG, and HOME funds, as well as funding options available at the state, county and town level. HAC provides assistance to rural housing organizations to detail the project budget’s sources and uses. HAC also assists organizations to delineate potential financial limitations or enhancements (the potential for loss or reduced funding, or increased funding) and assistance in evaluation and assembling project financing including loans, grants, tax credits and potential federal funding sources.