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Affordable Housing Finance: Collishaw Places Purpose Over Prestige
Tom Collishaw’s journey proves real impact in rural housing comes when you put purpose first.
Introducing NRHC’s “Stories” Portal
Today we’re excited to unveil NRHC’s new Stories portal - dynamic platform built to elevate the voices, experiences, and successes of rural housing and community development across the country.
March 13, 2026
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Affordable Housing Finance: Collishaw Places Purpose Over Prestige
Tom Collishaw’s journey proves real impact in rural housing comes when you put purpose first.
November 17, 2025
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Introducing NRHC’s “Stories” Portal
Today we’re excited to unveil NRHC’s new Stories portal – dynamic platform built to elevate the voices, experiences, and successes of rural housing and community development across the country.
November 11, 2025
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Stories
CDCB’s Micasita Program
- Lower Rio Grand Valley,
- Texas
- Come Dream Come Build
- In the Rio Grande Valley, a couple trapped in debt and unsafe housing used the MiCASiTA self-help program to design and build a modest two-bedroom home they could finally afford....
Ms. Gretchen Jackson
- Tuskegee,
- Alabama
- Rural LISC
- A longtime rental resident in rural Alabama improved her credit through SEASHA’s counseling program and became a first-time homeowner in 2015 using a USDA Section 502 loan....
Esperanza
- Mattawa,
- Washington
- Office of Rural & Farmworker Housing
- ORFH replaced aging cargo-container housing in Mattawa, Washington by developing Esperanza, a 16-unit affordable farmworker housing project financed with USDA farm labor housing funds and state support....
