Infrastructure
Communities Need Safe Drinking Water: A Rural Environmental Justice Case Study
This short case study has insights on what will it take for rural communities to drive their own clean water solutions and breaks down the structural challenges that keep rural communities from accessing clean water solutions.
Strategies to Address Rural Flooding
Insights from practitioners in rural places experiencing repeated disasters on what it will take to for rural communities to drive their own solutions.
What Is Possible When High-Speed Broadband Comes To Town
Center on Rural Innovation (CORI)
The impact of high-speed broadband in rural America can be transformative, enabling job attraction, innovation hubs, youth tech education, entrepreneurial growth, and improved health outcomes. Learn what’s possible when high-speed internet comes to town from five innovative communities across the US.
Analyzing the opportunities for rural America in IIJA, CHIPS, and IRA
Brookings Institution
Brookings Institute authors estimate >$464 billion, or 45% of the combined appropriations in these three laws, present a significant opportunity for rural America and offer recommendations on how to maximize the benefits.
When Communities Keep Flooding: A Rural Environmental Justice Case Study
This short case study has insights and tips on addressing the causes and conditions contributing to flooding in rural places, as well as to envision and build thriving futures of equitable rural prosperity.
Taking Stock
Housing Assistance Council
First published in 1984, Taking Stock is HAC's decennial research publication. The 2023 edition of Taking Stock continues this legacy of presenting social, economic, and housing trends for rural places and people.
The Equity of Economic Opportunity in Rural America
The Center on Rural Innovation (CORI)
Research on rural America’s economic opportunity from CORI highlights growing disparities due to the knowledge economy’s focus on urban areas. It emphasizes the need for equitable policy and investment in rural regions to address systemic inequities and enable rural participation in the knowledge economy.
Will EDA’s Recompete Pilot Program reach rural America?
Brookings Institution
Brookings Institute authors offer recommendations on how rural areas can maximize the opportunity to compete for Distressed Area Recompete Pilot Program funding.
Understanding Broadband Resilience and Natural Disaster Risk
Center on Rural Innovation (CORI)
It’s essential to build resilient broadband systems to withstand natural disasters, but resilience varies by region and type of infrastructure. New research and tools from CORI will help in planning/upgrading broadband infrastructure in disaster-prone areas, ensuring continuity in communication and public safety services.
Regional Clusters and Rural Development
Brookings Institution
Implementation of the Build Back Better Regional Challenge offers an enormous opportunity to advance how regional approaches can benefit — or disadvantage — rural places.
Maximizing New Federal Investments in Broadband for Rural America
Brookings Institution
Congress has appropriated billions of dollars to close the digital divide and ensure universal, reliable, and affordable broadband access across the US, but rural areas are the type of community most likely to encounter challenges to access and adoption. How can smart policy help end the digital divide once and for all?
Broadband Connection in Rural Communities
ChangeLab Solutions
Improving rural broadband is key to enhancing health, education, and economic equity. It helps ensure access to health and emergency services and reduces the digital divide that disproportionately affects BIPOC and low-income families. Explore how increasing capital access and flexible policy strategies can advance rural life.