Designing and Implementing Rural Individual Development Account Programs
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Uses surveys, a location analysis, and case studies to examine rural implementation of Individual Development Accounts, which are matched savings accounts that help low-income families accumulate money to achieve specific asset-building goals such as home purchases or repairs. Identifies characteristics of successful rural IDA programs and policy changes that could further increase their usefulness.
2006, 43 pages, ISBN 1-58064-143-1

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

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

Lost in the Translation: Smart Growth, Local Planning, and Rural Affordable Housing
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Reports on the growth management initiatives of 13 states and the findings from a roundtable of rural housing experts and smart growth activists about the effect of smart growth on rural housing affordability.
2004, 41 pages, ISBN 1-58064-129-6

Rural Seniors and Their Homes
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Describes the demographic characteristics and housing conditions of elderly rural residents. Provides examples of successful assistance to low-income rural seniors, using both public and private funding, and examines reductions in federal funding.
2004, 40 pages, ISBN 1-58064-128-8