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Rural: It Matters!

The 2011 Rural LISC Annual Seminar, "Rural: It Matters!", was held October 12-14 in Washington, D.C. Partner organizations from across the country networked and learned how their colleagues are responding to current challenges and opportu- nities in rural commu- nity development.

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Welcome to Rural Housing Development Corporation

Rural LISC welcomes a new CDC partner, Rural Housing Development Corporation (RHDC), headquartered in Provo, Utah. Under the direction of Brad Bishop, RHDC helps to create affordable housing in seven counties in north-central Utah.

From their website: Rural Housing Development Corporation (RHDC) was initially created as a non-profit arm for the Housing Authority of Utah County (HAUC) to address affordable housing issues in rural Summit, Utah and Wasatch Counties. RHDC incorporated with the state of Utah in November 1998, and soon thereafter went out on its own as it was designated by Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as a Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO). More.

Funder in the Spotlight: Bank of America

Bank of America's support has been vital to Rural LISC’s community development work among the 60 Partner CDCs it supports, 39 of which operate in Bank of America service areas across 19 states.

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Self-Help Enterprises helps residents create new homes with sweat equity

Rural LISC CDC partner Self-Help Enterprises, Inc., serving rural Tulare County, California, celebrated the Grand Opening of Goshen Village II on November 10. The new development is part of the Park Village community comprising 77 homes in the town of Goshen in the southern San Joaquin Valley.

Families will soon move into homes they helped build, as part of a program that improves living conditions of low-income people. To qualify, participants need to have a steady job, good credit and put in 32 hours of labor to build their homes.

"Ten families here have built their first home . . . a home they built themselves with their neighbors in our self-help sweat equity program," said Tom Collishaw, vice president of Self-Help Enterprises.

See TV coverage and the full article at KSFN Fresno.

More photos available here.