Each issue of HAC’s Rural Voices magazine focuses on a single topic important to rural communities, with subjects ranging from housing for older rural residents to the future of housing finance to citizen-led design. Local rural housing professionals from around the country write most of the articles, sharing their expertise, best practices, and even the mistakes they’ve learned from. To hear when a new issue of the magazine is published, sign up for HAC’s email list or watch for announcements in the HAC News and on social media.

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

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

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

Spring 2004: Native American Housing

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  • VIEW FROM WASHINGTON: Tribes Posed for Housing, Economic Growth
  • VIEW FROM WASHINGTON: Addressing Native American Housing Needs
  • Challenges in Indian Housing
  • Infrastructure Woes in Indian Country
  • Building Homeownership Institutions in Indian Country
  • Reaching the ‘Possible Dream’ …The Nonprofit Way
  • Innovative Asset-Building Programs on the Pine Ridge Reservation: A Conversation with Cindy Martin-Laiwa
  • Preparing New Homeowners: Some Challenges at Standing Rock
  • Preparing New Homeowners: The Navajo Partnership for Housing’s Homebuyer Education Program
  • Building Tribal Coalitions: A Model from New Mexico

Winter 2003 – 04: Tax Credits and Rural Housing

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  • Overview: Tax Credits and Affordable Rural Housing
  • Building Credit in Washington State
  • Making Housing Credits Work in Kentucky
  • CROWN: Providing Homeownership Opportunities in Utah
  • Low Income Housing Tax Credits for Rent-to-Own Projects in Maryland
  • Historic Tax Credits: Making Adaptive Reuse Work
  • View from Washington: A Homeownership Tax Credit: An Opportunity

Fall 2003: Self-Help Housing

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  • View From Washington: USDA’s Self-Help Program, Past and Present
  • The California Beginnings of USDA Self-Help Housing
  • USDA Self-Help Expands in New Jersey
  • Regional Contractors Provide Essential Assistance for USDA Self-Help Housing
  • Fulfilling Goals in Arkansas
  • People Are Counting on Us in Washington
  • Changing Lives in Ohio
  • From Challenges to Opportunities in Florida
  • Beyond Self-Help: A New Beginning for Colonias Residents
  • The Appalachian Approach to Self-Help
  • Building Dreams on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
  • Serving Rural Communities: Habitat for Humanity’s Rural Housing Initiative

Summer 2003: Manufactured Housing in Rural America

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  • Rural America’s housing of Choice? Exploring Manufactured Housing’s Growing role
  • Manufacturing Affordability
  • Planners Help to Integrate Manufactured Housing
  • Research Identifies Problems in Manufactured HOme Financing System
  • Manufactured Housing Can Serve Older Persons
  • No Longer a Secret: The Manufactured Housing Sector Can Create Long-Term Value fo Homeowners
  • Appalachian Manufactured Housing Experience Raises Concerns
  • Coachella Valley Mobile Home Parks Transformed
  • VIEW FROM WASHINGTON: New Resources for Rural Housing

Spring 2003: Homeownership Education and Counseling

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  • Whither Homeownership Education and Counseling? An Overview
  • Partnerships and Technology Expand Homeownership Counseling Opportunities
  • Keeping a Grip on the American Dream: Counseling Before and After Purchase Helps Homebuyers
  • USDA Rural Development teams with Others to Offer Homebuyer Education in Virginia
  • NCALL Combines Counseling with Financial Assistance for First-Time Buyers in Delaware
  • Homebuyer Education Benefits Ripple Throughout Appalachian Counties
  • Counseling Helps ROI Address Critical Farmworker Housing Needs
  • Understanding: The Key to Meeting Financial Education Needs in the Colonias
  • VIEW FROM WASHINGTON: Rural Housing Funding Decided for 2003, Proposed for 2004

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