A bipartisan duo of lawmakers in the Senate recently reintroduced a bill they previously collaborated on in 2023, aiming to bolster affordable housing programs and accessibility in rural areas. Sens.

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Hundreds of thousands of rural families could lose their affordable homes as mortgages the program supported expire by 2050.

In many cases, the key to housing problems in rural communities could be the already existing stock. Strategies on how to tap into that resource is often the missing puzzle piece to a solution. Rural ...

Heather Colley and her two children moved four times over five years as they fled high rents in eastern Tennessee, which, like much of rural America, hasn’t been spared from soaring housing costs. A ...

Community leaders, residents, and USDA Rural Development representatives gather in Loveland, Ohio, Nov. 2, 2024. RD's Community Facilities program allowed them to break ground on a new, ...

For generations, rural America promised cheaper homes and a lower cost of living than the nearest big city. That bargain is rapidly collapsing as prices in small towns and farm counties spike faster ...

Utah, are contacting Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to argue against recent changes to a rural home loan program.

The key to population, and thus economic, growth in small towns is available, affordable housing and workforce investments, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President and CEO Tom Barkin said Tuesday ...

A newly released study conducted by the University of Nevada, Reno Extension highlights a growing housing affordability crisis across rural Nevada. Commissioned by Nevada Rural Housing, the study ...

The average home costs $804,879 in New York City, according to Zillow. Prefer urban living on the West Coast? Expect homes to average $933,111 in Los Angeles. Those kinds of outlandish home prices ...

Rural America has challenges that vary from landscape to landscape across this huge country. But some are more universal and ...