Anniversary Category: Reports

This paper was written by Paul Cohn, National Rural Housing Foundation, Washington DC and prepared for the Fannie Mae Foundation by the National Rural Housing Foundation.

A report by Audrey Johnston for the Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development

The purpose of this report is to analyze federal strategies to preserve affordable, rural rental housing. In addition, this report identifies workable policy solutions to help Congress and the Administration use its limited resources to most effectively serve low-income, rural individuals and families. Most importantly, these policy solutions aim to resolve USDA’s Rural Housing budget…

The purpose of this report is to document successful federal strategies for providing affordable housing to low-income rural families.

NRHC’s Impact Survey shows that in 2012, nonprofit rural housing organizations helped lowincome rural families secure over $890 million in financing to build or purchase 8,392 units of housing, and helped 32,819 rural families gain access to clean and affordable water and sewer systems. This led to the creation 20,481 jobs, generated over $596.5 million…

In the fall of 2014, the National Rural Housing Coalition (NRHC) surveyed 107 nonprofit, rural housing organizations—serving low-income families in rural communities throughout all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands—on their activity in their last completed fiscal year (Fiscal Year 2013). This report provides a full analysis of the aggregated survey responses.