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Building Communities Together Nationwide

June 30, 2016 USDA Rural Development Under Secretary Lisa Mensah

Owning a home opens up a world of opportunities. A home is an asset that helps families finance education or a business. A home could be the reason you learn how to use a power drill, or the reason you start your first garden. Homeownership helps people become more financially literate all while...

Rural

USDA is a Boon to Business in Boonville, NY; Higher Exports Thanks, in part, to Rural Development Program

June 30, 2016 Sam Rikkers, Administrator, Rural Business and Cooperative Service

Focusing on international markets, renewable energy and a community’s inherent assets, rural businesses find dynamic paths to prosperity. To see this in action, I headed to Boonville, New York. Mark Bourgeois was born and raised in Boonville and today is President of CJ Logging Equipment and 3B...

Energy Rural Trade USDA Results

REAP: Working Well in North Carolina

June 29, 2016 Sam Rikkers, Administrator, Rural Business and Cooperative Service

USDA Rural Development’s Rural Energy for America Program, or REAP as we call it, is one of the flagship programs found in the energy title of the Farm Bill. Through REAP, USDA helps rural agricultural producers and small businesses improve their financial bottom line through increased energy...

Energy Rural

Rebuilding Lives: Celebrating Homeownership Month

June 24, 2016 Joyce Allen, Deputy Administrator of Single Family Housing, USDA Rural Housing Service

Five years ago, Christy Carr seemed like a long shot as a future homeowner. She was a newly divorced, unemployed mom of five, and her credit score was in the 300’s. The home she shared with her children had no heat, no electricity and no running water. A neighbor let Christy run an extension cord to...

Rural

Housing is Opportunity, Housing is Jobs

June 17, 2016 David Lipsetz, Associate Administrator USDA Rural Housing Service

When one thinks about home, they often think about warm meals on the dinner table, cozying up on the couch, painting the nursery, or even building equity in a place one calls their own. When I think housing- especially new housing: I also think opportunity; I think jobs. Jobs come from laying...

Conservation Rural

USDA Builds Communities with Lenders

June 07, 2016 Tony Hernandez, USDA Rural Housing Service Administrator

It’s been 25 years since USDA guaranteed the first home loan in Donalsonville, Georgia. The home itself was a modest spot nestled into the tiny little village in rural Georgia. To an outsider this home may look non-descript, but to the family who moved in 25 years ago, owning this home was a dream...

Conservation Rural