Housing Assistance Council

The HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL

• improves housing conditions for the rural poor, with an emphasis on the poorest of the poor in the most rural places in the United States.
• offers services to public, nonprofit, and private organizations throughout the rural United States.
• maintains a special focus on high-need groups and regions: Indian country, the Mississippi Delta, farmworkers, the Southwest border colonias, and Appalachia.

Disaster Recovery Guide

Picking Up the Pieces: HAC's Natural Disaster Recovery Guide

The USDA RD Program Obligations Reports for April FY 13 are now available for download
-May 20, 2013 

Register Now for HAC's Section 502 Packaging Training in Knoxsville, TN
- May 20, 2013 

Download materials from HAC's webinar overview of the USDA Section 502 Direct and 504 programs
-May 15, 2013 

Rural Veterans and Local Nonprofits Receive Housing Aid
-May 9, 2013 

HAC News newsletter of May 1, 2013
in text or in PDF
-May 1, 2013

Other Recent Announcements, Blog Posts and Press Releases

HAC Initiatives

• Self-Help Homeownership
• Rural Housing Data Portal
• Rural Rental Preservation
• Rural Seniors
• Rural Veterans
  

Federal Policy, Budget, and Funding Updates

2014 Funding

• USDA Rural Housing Budget and Appropriations 
• HUD Budget and Appropriations

 Trainings & Conferences / Web-Based Trainings

 Events List

• Section 502 Packaging Training for Nonprofit Developers
  June 18-20, 2013 - Knoxville, TN 
• Aging in Place: Home Repair for Rural Seniors - Webinar
  June 19, 2013

Research and Recent Publications

• Taking Stock: Rural People, Poverty and Housing in the 21st Century
• Rural Research Notes
• Taking Stock of Housing in Your Community (Rural Voices)
• USDA List of Communities that May Lose Eligibility for Rural Development (RD) Housing Programs
• Conducting Homeless Counts on Native American Lands - A Toolkit

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