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.

Rural Voices

7 Issues Facing Rural America

USDA Rural Development publishes:

• NOFA for Sec. 533 Housing Preservation Grants

• NOFA for tenant vouchers in prepaid Sec. 515 properties

• deadlines for Sec. 515 setasides for nonprofits and for underserved counties and colonias

-June 18, 2013 

Watch Housing Finance Reform: Is Inertia Gaining Momentum? A discussion hosted by the BPC Housing Commission
-June 17, 2013 

Center for American Progress and NCLR report highlights the need for access to affordable housing financing
-June 6, 2013 

HAC News newsletter of June 5, 2013
in text or in PDF
-June 5, 2013

A Resource for Programs Serving Rural Veterans
-June 5, 2013 

Download the Spring issue of Rural Voices, "7 Issues Facing Rural America"
-June 4, 2013 

Other Recent Announcements, Blog Posts and Press Releases

HAC Initiatives

• Self-Help Homeownership
• Rural Housing Data Portal
• Rural Rental Preservation
• Rural Seniors
• Rural Veterans
  

Federal Policy, Budget, and Funding Updates

2014 Funding

• USDA Rural Housing Budget and Appropriations 
• HUD Budget and Appropriations

 Trainings & Conferences / Web-Based Trainings

 Events List

• Section 502 Packaging Training for Nonprofit Developers
  June 18-20, 2013 - Knoxville, TN 
• Aging in Place: Home Repair for Rural Seniors - Webinar
  June 19, 2013
• Housing Seniors and Veterans in Rural America: Preservation, Development and Services
  August 28-29, 2013 - Council Bluffs, IA 

Research and Recent Publications

• Taking Stock: Rural People, Poverty and Housing in the 21st Century
• Rural Research Notes
• 7 Issues Facing Rural America (Rural Voices)
• USDA List of Communities that May Lose Eligibility for Rural Development (RD) Housing Programs
• Conducting Homeless Counts on Native American Lands - A Toolkit

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