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Social Media Webinar: How to Create a Social Media Strategy
The focus of this webinar was on how to create an effective social media strategy, regardless of your organization’s limited resources. By providing this webinar, in addition to other critical resources and information, NRHC aims to help build the capacity of rural housing organizations and to help raise awareness of the issues impacting rural families and…
NRHC 2014 Impact Survey
In recent years, funding for USDA Rural Housing programs has been cut significantly, making it more difficult for nonprofit organizations and state and local governments to improve housing conditions in their communities. To help protect these resources, rural housing and community development organizations must find new and better ways to document their impact and effectiveness. That’s…
Special Offer to New Members
In order for NRHC to continue to be successful, we need your support. That’s why NRHC is offering new members a one-year membership for $250, including subscriptions to our Budget Bulletin and Rural Housing Reporter publications. Join Today! We are in a period of unprecedented austerity in the federal budget. Both Congress and the White House have supported spending cuts…
NRHC Releases New Rental Housing Report
Today, the National Rural Housing Coalition (NRHC) released a comprehensive report on the state of affordable rental housing in rural communities. The report, “Rural America Rental Housing Crisis,” documents both the substantial contributions that federal rural housing programs have made to improving housing conditions in rural America and the challenges to preserving and maintaining these gains in an era…
NRHC Statement on FY15 House Appropriations Bill
Washington, DC, May 29, 2014 – Bob Rapoza, Executive Secretary of the National Rural Housing Coalition, issued the following statement in response to today’s vote by the House Appropriations Committee to approve its Fiscal Year 2015 Agriculture Appropriations bill: The National Rural Housing Coalition applauds bipartisan Congressional efforts to restore funding for U.S. Department of Agriculture…
Opposition Mounts to Proposed Cuts in Federal Rural Development Programs
Today, NRHC delivered a petition signed by more than 1,400 rural organizations and advocates to Congress, voicing strong opposition to the significant funding cuts proposed in the President’s 2015 budget for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development programs, including a 60 percent cut in low-cost homeownership loans and over $150 million in grants that…
Find Out Whether Your Community Is Eligible For Rural Housing Programs!
Earlier this year, Congress enacted the Farm Bill, which included a provision to extend eligibility for USDA Rural Housing programs through the 2020 Census. Did your community make the cut? Check out NRHC’s new easy-to-use Rural Definition guide! Use our guide to find out if your community is eligible and when families in your area can start…
Sign NRHC’s Petition TODAY!
Sign NRHC’s Petition In Support of USDA Rural Housing Funding For the 5th year in a row, the White House has used every excuse in the book to cut funding for USDA Rural Housing and Community Development programs, making it even more difficult for low-income families, the elderly, and persons with disabilities to access affordable…
Keep Your Focus on the Senate
Senate Deadline is Less Than 1 Week Away! So far, 12 Senators have signed onto Senator Schumer’s (D-NY) Dear Colleague letter in support of funding for USDA Rural Housing programs, including: Boxer, Cantwell, Coons, Gillibrand, Heitkamp, Hirono, Leahy, Manchin, Sanders, Schumer, Shaheen and Wyden. PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY and ask them to sign onto Sen. Schumer’s…