Cutting Rural Housing Grants Puts Heartland Families at Risk—Is Washington Listening?

Heather Colley’s story is one too many in a struggling rural America where the dream of homeownership feels increasingly out of reach. After fleeing sky-high rents in eastern Tennessee, Heather, a single mother working as a manicurist for $18.50 an hour, found hope through a federal grant that helped her build a modest three-bedroom home on family land—a blessing made possible by the HOME Investment Partnerships Program. Yet now, this vital lifeline is under threat. The Trump administration’s proposal to eliminate funding for HOME, combined with House Republicans’ omission of it from their budget plan, places tens of thousands of...