The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is modernizing its rural housing programs to increase efficiency for lenders and ...

As part of President Trump’s March 13 executive order Removing Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Home Construction, the U.S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins hugs Gov. Bill Lee during the Future Farmers of America breakfast in Lebanon, Tenn ...

The high cost of renting and buying homes in U.S. cities is no secret. But this affordability problem isn’t limited to urban regions – it affects rural areas as well. Rural areas, home to about 25% of ...

USDA’s Rural Development mission area needs enough staff at the local level to help producers take advantage of the array of available RD programs, witnesses told a House Agriculture Committee panel ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - The ongoing government shutdown is set to create growing delays for homebuyers relying on federal loan programs, with Rural Development loans being hit particularly hard.

Hundreds of thousands of rural families could lose their affordable homes as mortgages the program supported expire by 2050.