Randolph County Housing Authority

Randolph County Housing Authority, doing business as Woodlands Development Group, is a local government housing authority recipient of federal grants for workforce development, homelessness prevention, family self-sufficiency coordination, and rural community infrastructure in West Virginia, operating as a prime grant recipient on 38 of 40 recent awards with no federal contract prime activity.

The organization is structured as a U.S. local government entity and county housing authority, headquartered in Elkins, West Virginia. Its federal footprint centers on HUD housing programs and workforce development grants rather than federal contracting. Recent grant recipients include the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration, the Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service, the Appalachian Regional Commission, and the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy. The vendor carries no SBA designations (8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB) as a government entity and does not compete on federal contract vehicles.

The capability portfolio spans five concrete areas grounded in active grant work. Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) coordination programs, funded annually by HUD's Public and Indian Housing Office, pay for FSS coordinators who enroll and maintain families in training and services plans across public housing, housing choice voucher, and project-based rental assistance properties; RCHA has held FSS grants consistently from 2022 through 2026. Continuum of Care (CoC) homelessness prevention and rapid rehousing: HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development awarded $280,067 for calendar year 2026 and $260,564 for calendar year 2025 (CFDA 14.267) to operate permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, and supportive services for homeless individuals and families in Elkins. Workforce training and pre-apprenticeship: the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration funded the First Step Heavy Equipment Training (FSHET) program starting September 2022 through September 2025, a mobile training initiative delivering five-week and ten-week pre-apprenticeship courses targeting heavy equipment operators in construction and forestry with a target of 130 enrolled participants and 80 job placements. A second DOL award dated June 2024 extends through September 2027 (statement of work not specified in source). Rural health workforce development: the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy awarded $1.544 million to RCHA on August 1, 2022 (completion July 31, 2026) to operate a Rural Public Health Workforce Training Network serving Barbour, Randolph, Tucker, Upshur, and Webster counties in partnership with Davis Medical Center, Broaddus Hospital, Webster Memorial Hospital, Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College, and Davis and Elkins College. Community infrastructure and housing preservation: the Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service awarded $250,000 for community facilities development and $117,000 for rural housing preservation grants (2021, completed June 2022).

Customer concentration by award count aligns with the housing and workforce mission: the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration (10 awards), HUD Public and Indian Housing Office (10 awards), and HUD Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (7 awards) account for 80% of recent awards. The Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service rounds out the top tier with 5 combined awards. No parent contract vehicles or IDIQs apply; all funding flows through direct federal grant awards to RCHA as prime recipient.

Activity has declined from 5 awards in 2022 to 2 in 2025 and 2 in 2026 year-to-date. Three awards complete within the next twenty-four months and face renewal or recompete. RCHA subcontracts minimally — a single sub-award in August 2023 to Youthbuild Global, Inc. for housing rehabilitation and construction under a prime Youthbuild federal grant. The organization has obligated $21.1 million across 40 awards spanning twelve federal agencies since 2007, operating exclusively as a grant recipient serving rural West Virginia's homeless, low-income, and workforce-disadvantaged populations.