Housing
Affordable Housing Advances Rural Wellbeing
Housing-related resources from our partners that are helpful for rural people and places.
Navigating Outmigration
Neighborworks
Population shifts are stressing a market that already has a limited — or non-existent — supply of affordable homes, and despite being in the "post-pandemic" era, the changes in rural communities seem to be sticking.
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.
CITIZENS’ INSTITUTE ON RURAL DESIGN
Housing Assistance Council (National Endowment For The Arts)
CIRD empowers local citizens to use their unique artistic and cultural resources to guide local development and shape the future design of their communities.
CITIZENS’ INSTITUTE ON RURAL DESIGN
Housing Assistance Council (National Endowment For The Arts)
CIRD empowers local citizens to use their unique artistic and cultural resources to guide local development and shape the future design of their communities.
RURAL AMERICA PLACEMAKING TOOLKIT
USDA Rural Development
The Rural America Placemaking Toolkit is a resource guide to showcase a variety of placemaking activities, projects, and success stories across rural America.
RURAL AMERICA PLACEMAKING TOOLKIT
USDA Rural Development
The Rural America Placemaking Toolkit is a resource guide to showcase a variety of placemaking activities, projects, and success stories across rural America.
HOUSING CAN’T WAIT
Housing Can't Wait
Housing Can’t Wait is a grassroots initiative to address the need for immediate single-family homes for residents who lost their houses in the devastating 2022 Eastern Kentucky flooding.
Raising the Roof: Solutions for Rural Homelessness
Rural LISC
Apr. 19th, 2023, 1PM
Everyone deserves a place to call home, yet homelessness is on the rise in many communities across America. In this webinar, experts from the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness share approaches for addressing rural homelessness, and a practitioner shares their work to prevent and end homelessness in rural West Virginia.
Mapping a New Terrain: Executive Summary
Executive Summary document for Mapping a New Terrain: A Call to Action. Get quick takeaways and recommendations for action on equitable outdoor recreation development.
Mapping a New Terrain: Call to Action
As new rural outdoor recreation economies take root, we can meet this moment by improving how we do outdoor recreation development to better support rural families, businesses, and workers, create more sustainable and equitable economic systems, and improve local health and wellbeing.
The Rural Data Portal
The Rural Data Portal is a simple, easy-to-use online resource that provides essential information on the social, economic, and housing characteristics of communities in the United States.