Housing Assistance Council

The HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL

• improves housing conditions for the rural poor, with an emphasis on the poorest of the poor in the most rural places in the United States.
• offers services to public, nonprofit, and private organizations throughout the rural United States.
• maintains a special focus on high-need groups and regions: Indian country, the Mississippi Delta, farmworkers, the Southwest border colonias, and Appalachia.

Add your reaction to HAC 's comments on HUD's proposed HOME Rule changes
-February 3, 2012

USDA announces plan for Sec. 502 guaranteed borrowers to refinance to lower interest rates
- February 1, 2012

HAC News newsletter of January 25, 2012
in text or in PDF
-January 25, 2012

Rural Research Note: Rural Population Change
-January 17, 2012

USDA Closures Include Offices that Help Rural Americans Get Affordable Mortgages
-January 12, 2012

HAC Initiatives

• Rural Homelessness Capacity Building Initiative
• Green Building/Healthy Homes Initiative
• Self-Help Homeownership
• Rural Housing Data Portal
• Rural Rental Preservation
• Rural Seniors
  

 Trainings & Conferences

• Register for HAC's Webinar Overview of the 2013 Budget
  February 21, 2012 - 2:00 - 3:00 PM EST
• Register now for Rural Housing: New Opportunities for Alabama
  February 24, 2012 in Gadsden, AL

• Section 502 Packaging Training for Nonprofit Developers
  April 24-26, 2012 in Milwaukee, WI. 
• Register for any or all of the HAC/OWEESTA Webinar Series
  • Strategic Planning - March 21, 2012
  • Fundraising for Nonprofits - April 18, 2012
  •  Grant Writing - May16, 2012
  • Green Building - June 20, 2012 

SAVE THE DATE!  2012 National Rural Housing Conference. SAVE THE DATE!

December 6-7 with pre-conference activities December 5.

Hyatt Regency on the Hill, Washington, DC

Federal Policy, Budget, and Funding Updates

2012 Funding

• Final FY12 Appropriations
• Budgets Proposed
• USDA Appropriations
• HUD Appropriations