On February 8, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Kirtz, No. 22-846, affirming the decision below and holding that a governmental ...

President Trump’s fiscal 2027 federal budget outline, released on April 3, 2026, proposes to fund most of the U.S. Department ...

Senators Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) introduced this week new legislation that aims to address a shortage of affordable housing in rural communities. The lawmakers say the bill would ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development department is making approximately $12.2 million in grants available to eligible participants for the repair and ...

Oregon farmworkers, many of them immigrants, face a housing market that is fraught with substandard living conditions or is financially out of reach. Through a round of $18 million in investments from ...

A family buys a home on the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation with help from the USDA Rural Development office and the Akwesasne Housing Authority. (Photo courtesy of USDA.org) Rising costs, high interest ...

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner prays as President Donald Trump listens at the National Governors Association dinner and reception in the East Room of the White House Saturday, ...

HELENA, Mont. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development in Montana State Director Kathleen Williams announced an over $8.2 million grant to create economic and education opportunities in ...

SOUTH CAROLINA (WCIV) — Saundra Glover, the state director of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development South Carolina announced on Dec. 12 over $587,000 in grant projects ...

Republican U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn has unveiled bipartisan legislation intended to preserve affordable housing and improve access to quality homes across rural Iowa. Standing outside a Habitat for ...