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• A Primer on CRA
• Financing Hope
• Opening Doors in Rural Communities
• Sharpening CRA for a New Era
• If Not for CRA...
• CRA at 30 and Rural Community Development
• View from Washington by Barry Wides
• From Bad to Worse: A Summary of Rural housing Provisions in the Proposed 2008 Budget

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• Intermediary Roundtable on Capacity Building
• HAC’s Principles of Partnership
• Capacity Building: Vision and Mission
• Capacity Building: Leadership
• Capacity Building: Resources
• Capacity Building: Outreach and Community Support
• Capacity Building: Products and Services
• View from Washington: USDA’s Rural Community Development Initiative (RCDI) program

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• Growth Patterns and Rural Housing in Appalachia
• Volunteers Work in Appalachia – ASP Style
• The Ripple Effect: The Impact of Revolving CHDO Proceeds on Local Communities
• When Poverty Collides with Affluence in Appalachia
• Appalachian Ruin
• The Evolution of the Nonprofit Housing Network in Central Appalachia
• View From Washington: Interviews with Appalachian Regional Commission

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• View from Washington: The State Community Development Block Grant Turns 25
• Survey Shows Negative Effect of Cuts to CDBG
• The Ultimate Recycling Project
• CDBG Revitalizes Towns and Small Cities in Kentucky
• Taking Steps to Assist Rural Communities
• Creating Infrastructure in the Border Colonias
• The Sunnybrooke Housing Production Project
• Following a Roadmap to Community Success
• “If Not for CDBG...”
• CDBG QUICKS

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• Revisiting Buffalo Creek
• From a Brownfi eld to a Brighter Future
• Laying the Groundwork for Success
• Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action
• Pulling Together: Rural and Urban Communities Respond
• When Communities Own Their Way of Life and Shape Their Future
• View from Washington: Hurricane Katrina: Federal Policy Update

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• Demystifying Green Building and its Cost
• Green Communities Initiative Demonstrates Challenges and Successes for Rural Developers
• Getting Started on Green Affordable Housing
• Green Building Techniques: Land Planning and Site Development
• Green Building Techniques: Use of Materials
• Green Building Techniques: Resource Conservation
• Green Building Techniques: Energy Efficiency
• Green Building Techniques: Healthy Homes

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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

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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

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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

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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?