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Shawn Poynter / There Is More Work To Be Done
Shawn Poynter / There Is More Work To Be Done
HAC’s 2025 Annual Report
HAC would like to present its Annual Report for the year 2025.
Download HAC’s 2025 Annual Report
A Message from HAC President & CEO and Board Chair
For 55 years, HAC has played a unique role in the rural affordable housing sector. Combining research, technical assistance, policy analysis, and lending, the staff at HAC are truly best in class. It is what we hope you see within the pages of this year’s annual report. As always, there will be facts and figures about our impact on rural communities and families. But the resource we really wanted to focus on this year is one that can’t be measured as easily. We are of course talking about the resource that is HAC’s enduring expertise.
There was no better demonstration of HAC’s extensive expertise than at the 2025 National Rural Housing Conference (NRHC). Held from November 4-7 in Washington, DC, the conference brought together over 700 rural housing leaders, practitioners, and policymakers from across the country. Members of HAC’s team planned, moderated, or participated in over 40 different interactive sessions throughout the conference with our local partners and industry experts. We held a pre-conference forum dedicated solely to heirs’ property challenges. Successfully pulling off an event of this size and scope is only possible when an organization’s staff assembles unparalleled knowledge, experience, technical skill, and has the ability to combine them all on a day-to-day basis. We are lucky to have that at HAC.
In 2025, HAC leveraged its expertise by establishing new partnerships, conducting meticulous research, and advocating for policies that benefit rural communities. HAC was proud to launch Rural Data Central in 2025, and also expand the work of our Center for Multifamily Housing Preservation in its first full year of existence. Our training and technical assistance groundwork helped community organizations like the White Mountain Apache Housing Authority support home rehabilitation projects for veterans in Arizona. We also continued to provide flexible funding for organizations such as Hawaiian Community Assets, helping them build out innovative ways to house local populations amidst an ongoing affordability crisis. We hope you will read these stories and appreciate them as snapshots of a team functioning at its highest level.
2025 posed more questions than answers about America’s ongoing affordability crisis. Yet we believe there is enough know-how here at HAC to help address these challenges, no matter what form they take. Together, we are poised to move toward the future with the confidence born from 55 years of housing expertise, and the resilience that same expertise affords.
Thank you for reading and thank you being a partner in this work.
