Easing the Transition: Housing Assistance for TANF Recipients

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Easing the Transition: Housing Assistance for TANF Recipients
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Identifies specific obstacles rural welfare leavers face when they search for affordable housing and describes how states have addressed these obstacles.
2005, 32 pages, ISBN 1-58064-138-5

Creating the Village: How Mutual Self-Help Housing Builds Community

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Creating the Village: How Mutual Self-Help Housing Builds Community
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Describes how mutual self-help construction does more than simply build affordable homes: it builds neighborhoods, strengthens families, and creates wealth.
2005, 40 pages, ISBN 1-58064-139-3

Summer 2005: Farmworker Housing: Turning Challenges into Successes

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  • Farm Labor Housing: An Overview
  • Farmworker Housing Summit Inspires Collaboration
  • From Services to Housing: Meeting the Needs of Midwest Farmworkers
  • Successful Farmworker Housing Goes Beyond Roofs and Walls
  • Rural Neighborhoods Learns Ways to House Unaccompanied Workers
  • Changing Partners: Shifting Paradigms in Housing
  • Jonathan Court: A Portrait of Patience and Perseverance

Springr 2005: Telling Our Story: Marketing Affordable Housing

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  • Understanding Public Opinion on Low-Income Housing: A Report from Recent Polling
  • Changing Perceptions and Fostering Ideas: Language and Communications Matter
  • Working to Change the Public’s Opinion of Affordable Housing: Minnesota Housing Partnership
  • Educating the Nation about Housing Needs: The Campaign for Affordable Housing
  • Developing a National Campaign about Rural Needs: Stand Up for Rural America
  • Advocating for Change: The Community Reinvestment Association of North Carolina
  • Partnering to Recruit Residents and to Advocate for Affordable Housing: CHISPA
  • Showing Families the Possibilities: Marquette County Habitat for Humanity
  • Selling to Funders and Your Community: Stop Abusive Family Environments, Inc.
  • Humanizing the Issues: Enterprise Corporation of the Delta/Hope Community Credit Union
  • VIEW FROM WASHINGTON: RURAL AMERICA NEEDS CDBG

Homeownership as an Asset in Rural America

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Homeownership as an Asset in Rural America

A home is the largest asset most Americans and in particular low- and moderate-income households will ever own. During the nation’s recent economic downturn, the overall housing market has remained remarkably strong. Current instabilities in some investment sources have increased the attention to homeownership as a means of wealth accumulation.

They Paved Paradise . . . Gentrification in Rural Communities

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They Paved Paradise . . . Gentrification in Rural Communities
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Examines the dynamics of gentrification and its impact on housing affordability in rural communities, using case studies illustrating urban sprawl, in-migration of people attracted by natural amenities, and in-migration of retirees.
2005, 57 pages, ISBN 1-58064-136-9

Winter 2004 – 05: Preserving Rural Rental Housing

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  • View from Washington: Preserving Rural America’s Affordable Rental Housing: Current Issues
  • Rural Rental Housing – Comprehensive Property Assessment and Portfolio Analysis: Final Study Report
  • A Response to the Comprehensive Property Assessment
  • Owner Conversion of Rural Rental Properties to Market Rents: Both Tenants and Owners Turn to the Courts
  • Preservation and the Aging Portfolio: the Owners’ Perspective
  • Preserving and Improving Rural Rental Housing: Promising Efforts Emerge
  • Rural Preservation and Resident-Based Advocacy
  • The State HFA Response to the Affordable Housing Preservation Challenge
  • Lessons from HUD’s Preservation Process
  • Preserving RHS Rural Rental Properties – the Challenge and the Opportunity
  • Window of Opportunity: Preserving Affordable Rental Housing

Moving Home: Manufactured Housing in Rural America

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Moving Home: Manufactured Housing in Rural America
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Illuminates some of the pros and cons of using manufactured homes to provide affordable, sustainable homeownership. Includes a data analysis and short pieces written by local rural housing providers, national organizations, and a representative of the manufactured housing industry.
2005, 52 pages, ISBN 1-58064-141-5

Conference 2004: Lessons in Leadership

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  • Through Opportunity We Make Progress
  • Willing to Explore the Unknown
  • A Series of Remarkably Lucky Accidents
  • Demonstrate the Possibilities
  • Never a Resting Place
  • Becoming a Builder of Justice
  • Eight Challenges Facing Community Leaders
  • Investing in Leadership: The W.K. Kellogg Foundation celebrates 75 years of citizen leadership
  • Where are the Leaders?

Summer 2004: Rural Infrastructure

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  • Progress and Peril
  • Possum Kingdom Water Supply
  • Providing Affordable, Reliable Electricity to Rural Nebraska
  • The Streets of Lindsay
  • A Rural Highway is a Place
  • KARTS: A Lifeline to Society
  • Reaching Rural America through Wireless Broadband
  • View from Washington: An Overview of the USDA Rural Development Rural Utilities Service

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