Housing in Rural America: Building Affordable and Inclusive Communities [Hardcover]

The often-overlooked area of housing policy - decent and affordable shelter for the rural poor - is the focus of this book. After a definition of "rural" and a description of the state of rural housing and poverty in the United States, the book goes on to examine in detail especially distressed populations and regions; look at housing credit needs and resources, and conclude with distinctly rural solutions to the housing problem.

The often-overlooked area of housing policy - decent and affordable shelter for the rural poor - is the focus of this book. After a definition of "rural" and a description of the state of rural housing and poverty in the United States, the book goes on to examine in detail especially distressed populations and regions; look at housing credit needs and resources, and conclude with distinctly rural solutions to the housing problem.

Preface - Robert J Wiener and Joseph N Belden
PART ONE: CONDITIONS AND CONTEXT
The Context of Affordable Housing in Rural America - Joseph N Belden and Robert J Wiener
Conditions and Trends in Rural Housing - Cushing Dolbeare
PART TWO: PEOPLE AND PLACES
Affordable Housing in the Rural South - Jacquelyn McCray
The Border Colonias - Zixta Martinez,Charles Kamasaki and Surabhi Dabir
A Framework for Change
Affordable Housing in the Rural Midwest - Janet Krofta, Sue Crull and Christine Cook
The Hidden Homeless - Mary Stover
Many Harvests of Shame - Susan Peck
Housing for Farmworkers
Housing for the Rural Elderly - Joseph N Belden
PART THREE: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MONEY
The Role of the Federal Rural Housing Programs - Art Collings
Privatizing Rural Rental Housing - Robert J Wiener
The Prepayment Problem in RHS's Section 515 Program
Credit and Capital Needs fl³ì