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Homeownership Month


USDA Rural Development Celebrates Homeownership Month, Highlights Life-Changing Stories and Programs

June 02, 2022 Jamie Mobley, USDA Rural Development Public Affairs Specialist

In honor of National Homeownership Month, USDA Rural Development (RD) and the Biden-Harris Administration will highlight stories of how our programs have helped people in rural, Tribal, and underserved communities buy, repair and build homes, and pay their rent. As small towns and communities face...

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Humble Beginnings to Homeownership

June 10, 2021 Charron Culp, Public Information Officer, Tennessee

Gloria Gonzalez has humble beginnings in Mexico where, as a child, she lived in a home made by her grandmother out of river rocks and mud. The dream of living in a safe, sturdy home wouldn’t become reality until moving to the United States.

Equity Rural

A Celebration of Homeownership

July 01, 2015 Tony Hernandez, Rural Housing Service Administrator, USDA

Homeownership Month 2015 is already coming to the end, and I couldn’t be happier with the celebrations I’ve participated in, read about or listened to stories of. In 30 days I have visited seven states across our nation to meet the people that work for and with USDA Rural Development to help make...

Rural

Building a Better Future Together: Homeownership Month 2015

June 01, 2015 Tony Hernandez, Administrator, USDA Rural Housing Service

Rural America faces a unique set of challenges when it comes to combating poverty in our towns and communities. Too often, rural people and places are hard to reach or otherwise underserved -- but USDA makes sure they are not forgotten. I believe that USDA and its partners have the tools and the...

Rural

Silver City, NM, Student Draws Winning Poster for Homeownership Month

June 11, 2014 Rural Development State Director Terry Brunner

The Sixth Street Elementary School in Silver City, New Mexico, has seen a lot of students over the years. But May 8 th 2014 was a very special day at the 130-year-old school. Why? Because 10-year-old Mireya Cisneros, a fourth grader, was honored for her winning illustration for New Mexico’s 2014...

Rural

Ohio Habitat for Humanity Home Framed and Rising with Help from 'Team RD'

June 09, 2014 Ohio Rural Development State Director Tony Logan

In commemoration of USDA’s annual Homeownership Month, some industrious Ohio Rural Development team members and I recently spent a sunny day at a Habitat for Humanity building site, helping Marysville resident Michelle Amrine and her two children frame out a place to call their own. Financed through...

Rural

Making a House a Home - A Labor of Love

June 28, 2013 Wayne Maloney, Communications Coordinator, USDA Office of Communications

June is Homeownership Month. Today we are sharing a first person account of a 76-year old Kentucky resident who used USDA’s home loan program to purchase her first home. She submitted this account through the USDA Rural Development Kentucky State Office and we are sharing it so that others who are...

Rural

The 'Dream of Homeownership' is More than a Cliché for a Kentucky Family

June 10, 2013 Thomas Fern, state director for USDA Rural Development in Kentucky

Imagine for a moment you are a child surrounded by kind strangers – trailers coming and going with large pieces of structure, big cranes lifting and moving objects, women and men pounding nails into wood, saws ripping through timbers and groups of people working together to upright walls that will...

Rural

An 87 Year-Old Missouri Resident Enjoys her First Home-Thanks to USDA Support

July 09, 2012 Anita J. (Janie) Dunning, Missouri State Director, USDA Rural Development

Last year for Homeownership Month we visited Rita Fincher to whom we had made a Single Family Housing Direct loan to help purchase a home. I was so impressed with her story last year that I decided I wanted to go back and visit her to see “what difference a year had made in her life with her new...

Rural

In Arizona, Rural Development Housing Programs Provide a Stable Environment for Families

June 16, 2011 Ernie Wetherbee, Acting Arizona Rural Development State Director

The parents were leery about another rental, fearing having to move yet again. Rather serendipitously, the mother saw information on line about USDA Rural Development housing programs. She made a call that changed their lives. As it turned out, the house that they eventually found and qualified for...

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