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Experts on rural America were in Newbern to discuss barriers to affordable, resilient housing and the opportunities Alabama has to address them. Experts say these are the top 5 barriers to ...
In 1968, C.H. Erskine Smith, then Chairman of the USCCR’s Alabama State Advisory Committee implored: “the people of rural Alabama and the rural South must not be forgotten.”
Alabama miners' houses near Birmingham, Alabama, in 1935. Housing in Alabama takes a variety of forms, from single-family homes to apartment complexes. Alabama had a homeownership rate of 69.9% in 2017. [1] Issues related to housing in Alabama include homeownership, affordable housing, housing insecurity, zoning, and homelessness.
Compounded with the effects of the Great Recession, this led to a national housing crisis, with market-rate rents becoming unaffordable to middle- and lower-income families in many major American cities. LISC offices responded to the crisis by working to preserve affordable housing and prevent displacement. [41] [42] [43]
The lack of affordable housing in rural areas of the United States continues to be a critical issue and concern. Factors that can affect affordable rents and home ownership opportunities in Rural America include: lower income levels, urban sprawl pushing housing costs up, loss of high paying jobs and lack of access to credit.
Only 7,600 or so people live in impoverished Greene County, and hundreds of them are clustered in a public housing community called Branch Heights. Officials are now trying to find housing for ...
The Rural Studio program received acclaim for introducing students to the social responsibilities of architectural practice and for providing safe, well-constructed, and inspirational buildings to the communities of West Alabama. In many cases these buildings, designed and built by students, incorporated novel materials which otherwise would be ...
Real estate has been a roller coaster over the last four years. Home prices surged during the pandemic, followed shortly after by rents, then interest rates soared and stamped down the growth of ...