Rural Housing Service (RHS)

A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) agency which operates a range of programs to: facilitate home ownership options to individuals; provide housing rehabilitation and preservation funding; provide rental assistance to tenants of multi-family housing complexes; provide farm labor housing; develop multi-family housing projects or apartment buildings for elderly and disabled assisted living; and develop community facilities, such as libraries, child care centers, schools, and municipal buildings for Indian groups, nonprofit organizations, communities and local governments. Known as Rural Development Housing and Community Facilities Programs.