The Fall 2014 edition of Rural Voices presents the perspectives of rural families, their challenges of living in unaffordable or substandard conditions, and how they ultimately utilized federal resources to obtain quality housing. These success stories almost always involve innovative community-based organizations that provide the vital link between housing resources and the families who need them. The articles in this edition include the faces and stories of families who used these resources to gain better housing, including families who built their own home through self-help construction methods, a single mother struggling to obtain affordable housing for her family, and an elderly widow who got much needed repairs so that she can stay in her home, among other inspiring stories.
