Building Forward: Self-Help For All
This story appears in the 2015 Summer Edition of Rural Voices by Russell Huxtable Let’s build on fifty years of history and expand this life changing program! Great things come […]
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Technical Assistance Is the Essential Ingredient to Self-Help Housing
This story appears in the 2015 Summer Edition of Rural Voices by Suzy Huard USDA’S Section 523 Technical Assistance Grants make Mutual Self-Help housing possible Community Concepts, Inc. (CCI) based […]
Self-Help Housing and “SHOP” in the Rio Grande Valley
This story appears in the 2015 Summer Edition of Rural Voices by Nancy Hanson HUD’s Self -Help Homeownership Opportunity Program helps make self-help building sites affordable At the Lower Valley […]
An Emerging Self-Help Leader
This story appears in the 2015 Summer Edition of Rural Voices Discusses personal growth and sustaining the momentum through Self-Help Housing Affordable housing, specifically self-help housing, is very dear to […]
So Much Progress, So Much Left To Do!
This story appears in the 2015 Summer Edition of Rural Voices by Peter Carey A simple concept still holds promise in a complicated housing world More than five decades have […]
HAC News: July 8, 2015
HAC News Formats. pdf July 8, 2015 Vol. 44, No. 14 • USDA FY16 funding bill approved by House committee • Congress moving to reduce funding for ACS and Census […]
Speak Your Piece: Sanitizing the Census – The Daily Yonder
The Census Bureau wants to cut the “flush-toilet” question from its largest survey, saying the query is an “unnecessary burden on the American Public.” But changing the definition of inadequate […]
USDA Mobile Home Mortgages in Vermont
New, long-term USDA affordable mortgages available for mobile home park residents in Vermont. The pilot mortgage program is the first of its kind for residents of mobile home parks, where […]
Think California's housing crisis is tough in LA? Try Coachella.
Think California’s housing crisis is tough in LA? Try Coachella. While the working poor in urban parts of Southern California crowded into garage apartments, the rural working poor have increasingly […]
USDA Rural Housing Program Funding Activity Year End Report FY 2014
Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 USDA Rural Housing Program Funding Activity Year End Report The Housing Assistance Council tabulated data using the USDA Finance Office obligation reports (USDA/Rural Development report code […]