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.

Number of Rural People in Poverty Increases

The U.S. Census Bureau releases its annual report on Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011,

Registration for the 2012 National Rural Housing Conference is now Open!

Number of rural people in poverty increases
-September 12, 2012

HAC News newsletter of September 12, 2012
in text or in PDF
-September 12, 2012

Applications are now being accepted for HAC's Project Planning and Capacity Building Initiative (PPCBI)
-September 10, 2012

Moises Loza speaks at Florida Home Partnership (FHP) event
-September 7, 2012

HAC Initiatives

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

Federal Policy, Budget, and Funding Updates

2013 Funding

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

Final USDA and HUD Funding for FY 2012

 Trainings & Conferences / Web-Based Trainings

• Green Building Webinar - RESCHEDULED
  -September 19, 2012 - 2:00 PM
• Becoming a High Performing CHDO in Macon, GA
  -October 2-3, 2012
• Promises to Keep in Challenging Times - HAC National Rural Housing Conference 2012
  - December 6-7, 2012

Research

• Rural Research Notes
• Download the pdf or order a full size print of HAC's Poverty Map
• Estimating Potential Changes to USDA RD's Eligible Area Designations

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Promises to Keep in Challenging Times

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

Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC