Guidebook addresses funding for small towns and rural governments. Keys to Successful Funding provides guidance on preparing applications, and identifies major federal and foundation funding sources and strategies. Major presidential candidates take stands on housing. Governor George W. Bush's plan for urban and rural areas focuses on increasing homeownership through downpayment assistance, applying Section 8 vouchers to ownership, funding Individual Development Accounts, removing regulatory barriers, and providing tax credits for investors who construct or rehabilitate units. HUD expands tenant participation.
Center opens to preserve minority ownership of rural land.
The center will focus on African-American Southerners, Latino farmers from the borderland colonias and Native Americans on trust lands. HUD spending measure passes in House. On June 21, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4635, its FY 2001 appropriations bill for veterans' programs, HUD, and several other agencies. President Clinton has threatened to veto this bill, in part because it would eliminate Americorps. Nominations for rural housing awards invited.