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.

HAC News newsletter of January 25, 2012
in text or in PDF
-January 25, 2012

Rural Research Note: Rural Population Change
-January 17, 2012

USDA Closures Include Offices that Help Rural Americans Get Affordable Mortgages
-January 12, 2012

HAC News newsletter of January 11, 2012 
in text or in PDF
-January 11, 2012

USDA to close 43 RD offices as part of new "Blueprint for Stronger Service"
- January 10, 2012

HAC Initiatives

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

 Trainings & Conferences

• Register for HAC's Webinar Overview of the 2013 Budget
  February 21, 2012 - 2:00 - 3:00 PM EST

• Register for any or all of the HAC/OWEESTA Webinar Series
  • Strategic Planning - March 21, 2012
  • Fundraising for Nonprofits - April 18, 2012
  •  Grant Writing - May16, 2012
  • Green Building - June 20, 2012 
• Save the Date! Section 502 Packaging Training for Nonprofit Developers
  April 24-26, 2012 in Milwaukee, WI. 

Federal Policy, Budget, and Funding Updates

2012 Funding

• Final FY12 Appropriations
• Budgets Proposed
• USDA Appropriations
• HUD Appropriations