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HUD Programs

• CDBG Works for Rural Communities (Spring 2006 issue of Rural Voices magazine)
• Community Housing Development Organizations (information sheet, 2002)
• Continua of Care Best Practices: Comprehensive Homeless Planning in Rural America (report, 2002)
• Environmental Review: A Guide for Applicants Seeking HUD or USDA Rural Development Financial Assistance (manual, 2007)
• HOME Investment Partnerships Program (information sheet, 2002)
• HOME, CDBG, and Farmworker Housing Development (report, 1997)
• HOME Works for Rural Communities (Rural Voices, 2012)
• Housing Counseling Assistance Program (information sheet, 2001)
• HUD Consolidated Submission for Community Planning and Development Programs (information sheet, 1999)
• Low Income Rental Assistance (Section 8) Rental Certificates and Vouchers (information sheet, 2001)
• Section 8 Homeownership: A Guide for Rural Housing Practitioners (report, 2005)
• State Community Development Block Grants (Small Cities CDBG) (information sheet, 2002
• Supportive Housing for People with Disabilities (Section 811) (information sheet, 2002)
• Supportive Housing for the Elderly ([HUD’s] Section 202) (information sheet, 2003)
• Through Partnership and Promise: Ten Years of the Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program in Rural Communities (report, 2006)

USDA RD Programs

• Brief History of Rural Mutual Self-Help Housing in the United States, A (updated 2011)
• Environmental Review: A Guide for Applicants Seeking HUD or USDA Rural Development Financial Assistance (manual, 2007)
• Estimating Potential Changes to USDA RD's Eligible Area Designations
• Farm Labor Housing Loans and Grants (Section 514/516) (information sheet, 2002)
• Guaranteed Rural Housing Loans (Section 502) (information sheet, 2002)
• Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing (Section 538) (information sheet, 2002)
• Guide to Appealing Rural Housing Service/Rural Development Decisions (manual, 1998)
• Homeownership Direct Loans (Section 502) (information sheet, 2008)
• Housing Application Packaging Grants (Section 509(f)(6)) (information sheet, 2000)
• Housing Preservation Grants (Section 533) (information sheet, 2000)
• Lending on Native American Lands: A Guide for Rural Development Staff (manual, 2006)
• Leveraging Funds for Section 514/516 Farmworker Housing Development (report, 1998)
• Making Rural Housing Programs Work in Indian Country: A Guide for Tribes and Tribal Housing Organizations (manual, 2004)
• Programs that Work: USDA RD Sections 502 & 523 (Special Edition Rural Voices, 2011)
• Rural Housing and Community Development Service [Rural Development’s] Housing Preservation Grant [Section 533] Program: A Guide for Applicants (manual, 1995)
• Rural Development's Section 502 Guaranteed Loan Program (information sheet, 2009)
• Rural Housing Service’s [Rural Development’s] Section 502 Rural Homeownership Direct Loan Program: A Guide for Applicants (manual, 1999)
• Rural Housing Service’s [Rural Development’s] Section 504 Loan and Grant Program for Very Low-Income Homeowners: A Guide for Applicants (manual, 1999)
• Rural Housing Service’s [Rural Development’s] Section 538 Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing Program: A Guide for Developers (manual, 2000)
• Rural Housing Site Loans (Sections 523 and 524) (information sheet, 2002)
• Rural Rental Housing Loans (Section 515) (information sheet, 2011)
• Self-Help Housing (Section 502) (information sheet, 2002)
• USDA Rural Development Housing Programs, FY 2008 Year-End Report (report, 2009)
• USDA Rural Development Housing Programs, FY 2009 Year-End Report (report, 2011) (temporarily unavailable)
• USDA Section 514/516 Farmworker Housing: Existing Stock and Changing Needs (report, 2006)
• USDA Self-Help Housing Program Supports rural Minority Homeownership (Information sheet, 2011)
• Very Low-Income Housing Repair Loans and Grants (Section 504) (information sheet, 2011)
• Very Low-Income Loan Obligations Within USDA’s Section 502 Direct Homeownership Loan Program (report, 2010)

Budget Overview

• Administration Proposes Eliminating Many Rural Housing Programs in FY 2009 Budget (information sheet, 2008)
• From Bad to Worse: Rural Housing in the Administration’s FY 2008 Budget (report, 2007)
• Overview of the 2013 Budget (Webinar - 2012)
• Rural Housing and the Federal Budget Process (information sheet, 2001)

Other

• Affordable Housing Program, The (information sheet, 2006)
• Designing and Implementing Rural Individual Development Account Programs (report, 2006)
• Easing the Transition: Housing Assistance for TANF Recipients (report, 2005)
• Low Income Housing Tax Credit for Nonprofits Developing Rural Rental Housing, The (information sheet, 2002)
• Rural Housing and Welfare Reform: HAC’s 1997 Report on the State of the Nation’s Rural Housing (report, 1997)
• Tax Credits and Rural Housing (Winter 2004 issue of Rural Voices magazine)
• Utilizing the Low Income Housing Tax Credit for Rural Rental Projects: A Guide for Nonprofit Developers (manual, 1997)