America’s well-documented affordable housing crisis is often framed in terms of the big urban areas, where housing and living costs are sky high and rapid gentrification pushes rents and prices up and lower-income residents out. A new report, published Tuesday, highlights the problem by ranking the affordable housing needs of rural communities across the country. Housing issues in rural communities can get overlooked as living and housing costs tend to be lower there than in the cities. The already limited number of firms specializing in affordable rental housing is even smaller when it comes to rural markets, he told HuffPost. Rural rental housing developments tend to be significantly smaller than their urban counterparts, he said, and financing is complex.

Source: Huffington Post October 02, 2018 03:56 UTC