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.

Materials from HAC's Overview of the  2013 Budget Webinar now available
-February 21, 2012

HAC's final comments to HUD on the proposed changes to the HOME rule, or view in   PDF
-February 14, 2012

Administration Releases FY13 Budget
-USDA rural housing programs
-HUD housing programs
-February 13, 2012

HAC News newsletter of February 8, 2012
in text or in PDF
-February 8, 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 now for Rural Housing: New Opportunities for Alabama
  February 24, 2012 in Gadsden, AL
• Register now for Advanced Financial Management
  March 20-21, 2012 in Macon, GA

• Section 502 Packaging Training for Nonprofit Developers
  April 24-26, 2012 in Milwaukee, WI.
• Rural Senior Housing Training. Save the Date. June 5-6, 2012 in Burlington, VT.
  
• 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 

Federal Policy, Budget, and Funding Updates

2013 Funding

• USDA Budget Proposal
• HUD Budget Proposal

2012 Funding

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

National Rural Housing Conference 2012

SAVE THE DATE! | National Rural Housing Conference 2012 | SAVE THE DATE!

December 6-7 with pre-conference activities December 5.

Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC