Combining work by academic housing specialists, researchers for nonprofit housing organizations, and housing
practitioners, this collection emanated from a Fannie Mae Office of Housing Research roundtable series led by Belden
and Wiener. It explores decent and affordable shelter in rural areas, an often overlooked issue in housing policy.
Foreword
Acknowledgments
I Conditions and Context
1 The Context of Affordable Housing in Rural America
2 Conditions and Trends in Rural Housing
II People and Places
3 Affordable Housing in the Rural South
4 The Border Colonias: A Framework for Change
5 Affordable Housing in the Rural Midwest
6 The Hidden Homeless
7 Many Harvests of Shame: Housing for Farmworkers
8 Housing for the Rural Elderly
III Public and Private Money
9 The Role of the Federal Rural Housing Programs
10 Privatizing Rural Rental Housing: The Prepayment Problem in RHS's Section 515 Program
11 Credit and Capital Needs for Affordable Rural Housing
12 Impact of Federal Interventions on Private Mortgage Credit in Rural Areas
IV Creative Solutions
13 Mutual Self-Help Housing
14 New Housing Forms for Low-Income Rural Families
15 Community Land Trusts and Rural Housing
References
Suggested Reading
Index
About the Authors