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Manufactured Housing: Blueprint for Affordability and Community Impact

Our blueprint serves as a primer to manufactured housing — and a roadmap for community development professionals with the desire to build and scale sustainable programs centered on manufactured housing. 

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Community Development Counteracts Isolation

Social isolation can reduce access to support systems, sense of security and affordable community services, undermining mental and physical health and reducing quality of life. As a growing epidemic in the U.S., social isolation and loneliness increase a person’s risk of premature death, is associated with increased risk of dementia, and can lead to higher rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide.

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Building Assets: Strengthening Community in Low-Wealth Rural Areas

Between September 2018 and August 2019, NeighborWorks brought together five organizations to explore approaches to challenges in rural areas with the overarching goal of field building, working collectively to tease out best practices, improve outcomes and present learnings to inform efforts in the NeighborWorks network and the community development and rural fields.

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Turning the Tide on Persistent Rural Poverty: Blueprint for a Path Forward

Our goal is to make every place a community of opportunity. Unfortunately, some areas are being left behind more than others as our global and national economies continue to shift. Rural communities are among them. 


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Strengthening Construction Management in the Rural Rehab Line of Business

As part of our rural initiative, we outlined best practices in rural rehab construction management that categorize, analyze and correlate diverse rehab management practices gathered from rural housing rehab organizations across the United States. 

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Best Practices in Healthy Homes and Rural Rehab

Recognizing the importance of rehab work for housing preservation and the difficulty of running a sustainable rehab line of business, we gathered a cross-section of experts from our network to form a year-long rural rehab task force. They provided recommendations on how NeighborWorks can better support rehab in training, technical assistance and resource allocation. 


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Housing Rehab in Rural Communities: Ten Certifications to Consider

Ten certifications to consider when rehabilitating homes in rural communities.


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