Covid-19 Cases Surpass 2.2 Million in Rural America
COVID 19 reported cases and deaths continue to grow at an accelerated pace. There are now more than 2.2 million rural cases, and there were nearly 900,000 new reported COVID-19 […]
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Remembering Bill Powers
On Thanksgiving Day, the affordable housing community lost a dear friend and advocate. Bill Powers was a friend of the Housing Assistance Council since its earliest days as one of […]
Rural Voices: Cultivating Citizen-led Design
Design for the public interest takes on many forms, from Main Street redevelopment to landscape architecture to historic preservation. In all the rural towns HAC has worked with and featured […]
HAC’s 2021 Rural Housing Policy Priorities
Federal policy has an important and lasting impact on rural places. For nearly 50 years, the Housing Assistance Council (HAC) has been the voice for the poorest of the poor […]
HAC News: December 3, 2020
HAC News Formats. pdf December 3, 2020 Vol. 49, No. 24 TOP STORIES Coronavirus relief discussions continue. Media reports about negotiations change daily, but there is still at least some possibility that […]
White Mountain Apache Housing Authority Serves its Veterans
The White Mountain Apache Housing Authority (WMAHA) helps the members of the White Mountain Apache Tribe to overcome their individual housing needs. Of these, almost 500 are U.S. military veterans. […]
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies Releases State of the Nation’s Housing 2020
For most of 2020, the country has been beset by the COVID-19 pandemic, social unrest sparked by longstanding racial injustice, and the devastating impacts of climate change. Although low interest […]
HAC News: November 12, 2020
HAC News Formats. pdf November 12, 2020 Vol. 49, No. 23 TOP STORIES Senate releases FY21 funding bills. On November 10 the Senate Appropriations Committee posted its versions of all 12 appropriations bills for […]
Senate agrees with most House funding levels for rural housing programs
In a draft bill released on November 10, 2020, the Senate proposes to fund most rural housing programs in fiscal year 2021 at the same levels supported by the House. […]