Milford Housing Development Corporation (MHDC) makes the dream of becoming a homeowner a reality through sweat equity and financing options.

Each issue of HAC’s Rural Voices magazine focuses on a single topic important to rural communities, with subjects ranging from housing for older rural residents to the future of housing finance to citizen-led design.

Partnerships between rural communities and philanthropic entities are vital to kickstarting innovation and achieving long-term improvements across sectors in underserved rural areas.

The Appalachian Foodshed Project uses oral histories and digital spaces to foster community foodway growth through storytelling and learning.

Creating rural communities where people want to live, work and play is vitally important to a community’s health.

Hazard, Kentucky’s Housing Development Alliance partnered with city government to creatively repurpose unused and frequently vandalized property into affordable housing with a creative twist.

Inspired by subway and metro maps from cities across the world, this project interprets the walking tour routes into subway lines with color coded markings on the downtown sidewalks, including ‘stops’ at destinations.

How do we make community gardens more successful and help them persist through time?

The Downtown Bracket Challenge delivers a process to support shared community visions implemented in the short term as a tangible outcome but with the potential to help communities visualize permanent installations as part of a longer-term effort and vision.