A little-known Department of Agriculture program has supported 533,000+ affordable rental homes in rural America.

But it’s being phased out — and as loans expire, many of those homes are turning into market-rate housing.

https://theconversation.com/a-successful-usda-program-that-has-supported-more-than-533000-affordable-rental-homes-in-rural-america-is-getting-phased-out-273637

A successful USDA program that has supported more than 533,000 affordable rental homes in rural America is getting phased out

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

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