"NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 43.185 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) The housing communities program is created within the department to provide technical assistance and organizational capacity building programs to private, community-based nonprofit organizations that primarily serve communities of color or multilingual communities. The housing communities program must provide organizational training and technical assistance on housing development issues, including asset management, resource acquisition, and other general housing development topics, with the goal of assisting nonprofit organizations to add affordable housing development into their organizational missions and workplans, or expand their current affordable housing programs to further meet the needs of their communities.
     (2) The department shall contract with two or more experienced housing nonprofit organizations that have the capacity to implement the housing communities program throughout the state."