Housing Assistance Council

Resources Available on HAC's Website About Self-Help Housing

Features

• Self-Help Housing - Fall 2003 issue of Rural Voices magazine in PDF format

Quick Reads

• Information Sheet on Self-Help Housing (Section 502)
• Information Sheet Rural Housing Site Loans (Sections 523 and 524)
• Special Edition of the HAC News Newsletter Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of USDA's Self-Help Program
• Description of HAC's Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity Program

Full-Length Publications

• The Self-Help Housing Development Process in Rural Areas (1997)
• A Brief and Selective Historical Outline of Rural Mutual Self-Help Housing in the United States (updated annually)
• The Beginning of Self-Help Housing in the San Joaquin Valley, published by Self-Help Enterprises (1970) (this is a PDF file; to read it you must have the Adobe Acrobat reader, available free on Adobe's web site)
• Something to Build On: The Future of Self-Help Housing in the Struggle Against Poverty, by Richard J. Margolis, published by International Self-Help Housing Associates and American Friends Service Committee (1967) (available only in print)

This page was updated on June 23, 2003.

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