This Center for American Progress issue brief provides an analysis of the areas of opportunity for improving access to credit in rural communities gleaned from discussions in a roundtable convened by the White House Rural Council and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Housing Service.
Read MoreThis Urban Institute white paper examines the benefits of the Moving to Opportunity program.
Read MoreThis University of Kansas white paper examines the question, "If the Moving To Opportunity model were to be used on a larger scale, would enough neighborhoods be available to offer good housing, employment, and educational opportunities?"
Read MoreThis PRRAC paper is intended to present a civil rights perspective on the federal policy discussion currently underway seeking to harmonize various subsidized housing development rules across the three agencies that sponsor low income housing (HUD, the Treasury Department, and the Department of Agriculture).
Read MoreThis chapter from a Center for American Progress report on wealth building in the 21st century focuses on the unique challenges of housing affordability.
Read MoreThis USDA report provides a snapshot of veterans living in rural America.
Read MoreThis USDA study shows that out-migration counties stand out on two measures, indicating that quality of life factors inhibit in-migration: a lack of retirees moving in and local manufacturers citing the area’s unattractiveness as a problem in recruiting managers and professionals.
Read MoreThis USDA study reports trends in rural low-skill employment in the 1990s and their impact on the rural workforce.
Read MoreThis USDA-Rural Development report identifies the types of nonmetropolitan counties that are likely to experience the greatest surge in baby boom migration during 2000-20 and projects the likely impact on the size and distribution of retirement-age populations in destination counties.
Read MoreThis topic guide, managed by the Rural Health Information Hub, focuses on the health inequities that rural residents experience, and how income-level, educational attainment, race/ethnicity, housing quality and other factors impact health.
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