USDA Moves to Scrap Decades-Old Building Rules for Rural Housing

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development is proposing to eliminate decades-old federal construction requirements.
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USDA Rural Development rescinds outdated construction regulation to reduce red tape and support rural housing

U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development today announced it is proposing to rescind 7 CFR part 1924, an outdated ...
Agri-Pulse

USDA's Rural Development called critical for communities

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 ...
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World Social Report 21: Reconsidering Rural Development

An urgent reconsideration of rural development is needed for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The current strategies and patterns of rural development are failing to meet either ...
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Glen Smith sworn in as Under Secretary for Rural Development

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins officially swore in Glen R. Smith of Atlantic, Iowa, as U.S. Department of ...
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What is a rural community? The answer isn't always so simple.

In California’s Tulare County, the adjacent towns of Cutler and Orosi have long benefited from USDA rural development programs that have helped provide access to water and sewer systems and housing ...

Rural development group tours Dockside

Ellen Huber, Rural Development Director, for the North Dakota Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives led a large group of ...